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Le Claire rapids pilots town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1899 historic-map era
Town at the head of the Rock Island rapids where pilots boarded every boat, with boatyards and river trades all through the steamboat era; landing frontage and hillside lots record it.
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