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Lawrence Merrimack mill city blocks

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

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

Why this spot

1888 historic-map era

Planned textile city of the 1840s with the Great Stone Dam and miles of worker tenements; refuse filled the riverbanks and back lots for eighty years.

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