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Waterville rail terminus town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

1899 historic-map era

1867 terminus of the Central Branch railroad on the Little Blue drainage, briefly an end-of-track outfitting point with an 1870s hotel; terminus-era privies and dumps ring the old grid.

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