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Lincoln salt-basin capital dumps

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

1891 historic-map era

Capital sited by the salt basins in 1867, with breweries and bottlers active until statewide prohibition in 1917; Salt Creek margins and edge-of-town tips hold boom-decade refuse.

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