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Missouri, Illinois

Alexandria flood-ruined confluence town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Clark County town at the Des Moines-Mississippi confluence wrecked by repeated floods; shrunken townsite in the bottoms.

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