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Fitchburg paper and saw works valley

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: tool fragments.

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

Why this spot

1892 historic-map era

Paper, saws and machinery crowded the narrow Nashua River valley here; a long industrial corridor collected fill and refuse through the 1800s.

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