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Beatrice homestead-country mill city

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

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

1899 historic-map era

Big Blue River mill town at the heart of the first homestead country, with 1870s-80s dams, mills and brick wards; river lots and old-ward dumps carry the boom.

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