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Forest City stranded steamboat port
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
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
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Holt County port of the 1850s hemp and outfitting trade until the Missouri River cut away to the west and left the town stranded behind bottoms; old landing grade and lots remain.
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