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Rumford Androscoggin falls paper boomtown
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: crockery, tobacco tins.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1901 historic-map era
A planned paper city thrown up at Pennacook Falls in the 1890s; boom-era saloon and tenement refuse went into the Androscoggin margins and gullies.
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