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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 bottles
Sea potteryAlso 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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