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Eddyville coal and river junction
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: miner's gear.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1899 historic-map era
Des Moines River town that shifted from 1840s river trade to coal mining and railroads; landing ground, mine-house rows and dumps span the century.
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