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Running Water ferry landing hamlet

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Missouri River steamboat and ferry landing opposite the Niobrara mouth, briefly a rail terminus in the 1880s pontoon-ferry era, now a near-ghost hamlet; landing ground holds the boom window.

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