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Ellicott City Patapsco mill town

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos 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.

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