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Ortonville Big Stone lakehead town
Lake shore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1912 historic-map era
Town at the foot of Big Stone Lake where 1880s excursion steamers, granite quarries and produce warehouses met the railroad; lakefront fill and warehouse ground hold that era.
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