Is it legal to collect at Perkins (Swan Island) river town?

Restricted. The whole township is the Steve Powell Wildlife Management Area under the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, with reservation-only access; state rules bar digging and removing artifacts.

What can you find at Perkins (Swan Island) river town?

colonial coppers, large cents, Liberty Seated and Indian Head coins, shipbuilding hardware, ice tools, buttons, square nails

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Perkins (Swan Island) river town

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittings

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Also reported: large cents, ice tools.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

1750s-1940s shipbuilding, farm and ice-harvesting island town

Island town in the Kennebec River of almost 100 people who built ships, farmed and cut ice, named for summer resident Thomas Handasyd Perkins; it had a school and a cemetery. It was disincorporated in 1918 and abandoned by the mid-1940s after the Depression and river pollution.View source →