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Reads Landing raft crew town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: coins.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Once the boisterous layover for Chippewa River raft crews waiting at the Lake Pepin foot, with over twenty saloons in the 1870s, now a hamlet; the old saloon terraces face the river.
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