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Clinton carpet mill town lots

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: loom parts.

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

Why this spot

1892 historic-map era

Bigelow carpet looms made Clinton a model mill town from the 1840s; period house lots and edge dumps survive in town, though the Nashua valley above drowned under Wachusett Reservoir.

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