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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 bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also 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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