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Neosho Falls flood-faded town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Once a promising 1857 mill town on the Neosho that hosted a president in 1879, gutted by the 1951 flood and mostly emptied; abandoned blocks and mill ground line the river.

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