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Iowa, Illinois
Sabula island city riverfront
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: shell heaps.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1899 historic-map era
Iowa's only island town, a Mississippi sawmill, fishing and clamming village from the 1830s ringed by sloughs; every shore of the island took household refuse for a century.
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