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Aitkin upper Mississippi steamboat town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso 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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