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Stone City quarry village ruins
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: tools.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Wapsipinicon valley limestone quarry village of the 1870s-90s whose stone boom died with Portland cement, leaving ruins and a scatter of houses; quarry-worker refuse lies around the ruins.
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