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Lawrence Merrimack mill city blocks
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Buttons and bucklesPhotos 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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