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Iowa, Illinois
Montrose head of the rapids landing
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Landing at the head of the Des Moines rapids opposite the Mormon city, where cargoes were lightered from the 1830s until the canal; landing ground and old lots hold early river refuse.
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