Is it legal to collect at Providence Miami and Erie Canal village?

Restricted. The village site is largely within Providence Metropark, part of the Toledo Metroparks system and a federally designated historic district; park rules apply and detecting should not be assumed allowed.

What can you find at Providence Miami and Erie Canal village?

Large cents, Liberty Seated coins, canal boat hardware, buttons, square nails, ceramic sherds

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Providence Miami and Erie Canal village

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Nails and fittings

Buttons and buckles

Also reported: Large cents, ceramic sherds.

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

Why this spot

1816-1854 trading post and canal village

Village founded by French Canadian trader Peter Manor, with a sawmill from 1822 and a gristmill from 1835, that boomed once the Miami and Erie Canal opened. A fire in 1846 destroyed the business district and a cholera epidemic in 1854 sent survivors away so fast they left possessions behind.View source →