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Wittenberg Saxon river ghost town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

1839 Saxon Lutheran colony landing on the Mississippi, later abandoned to floods; townsite and landing ground in the bottoms.

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