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Maine
Lewiston Androscoggin mill canal district
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Buttons and bucklesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1890 historic-map era
Maine's biggest textile city, powered by canals cut off the Androscoggin in the 1850s; dense worker housing of the privy era surrounds the mills.
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