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Aitkin upper Mississippi steamboat town

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: logging gear.

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

Why this spot

1905 historic-map era

Northern Pacific and steamboat junction of the 1870s-1900s where boats ran the upper Mississippi to the logging camps; levee ground and saloon-row backlots hold the boom years.

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