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Minnesota
Old Crow Wing fur-trade and river town
Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Flint and stone tools
Trade beadsAlso reported: musket balls, brass kettle scraps, clay pipe fragments, buttons, hand-forged nails.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (CC BY 4.0).
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Why this spot
1820s-1860s fur-trade post and county seat
Trading settlement at the meeting of the Mississippi and Crow Wing rivers that grew into a county seat of 600 to 700 people in the 1850s and 1860s, about half of them Ojibwe. It was for a long time the northernmost Euro-American town on the Mississippi before it faded.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
river banks
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