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Ellicott City Patapsco mill town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1887 historic-map era
Granite mill town at Ellicott's flour mills from 1772, terminus of the first B and O rail line; flood-worked ground along the Patapsco holds displaced refuse.
Keep exploring nearby
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