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Waterville Ticonic Falls mill city riverbank

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

1892 historic-map era

Lockwood cotton mills and a dense tenement district grew at Ticonic Falls after 1874; refuse went over the Kennebec bank for decades.

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