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Easthampton Nashawannuck mill pond edges

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: rubber goods.

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

Why this spot

1895 historic-map era

Button and elastic-web mills grew around Nashawannuck Pond and the Manhan River after 1850; pond-edge and tailrace fill holds factory refuse.

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