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Nebraska, South Dakota
Niobrara twice-moved townsites
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: foundations.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Confluence town moved after the 1881 ice-gorge flood and again in the 1970s when dam backwater ruined the second site; two abandoned town grids lie near the river.
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