Is it legal to collect at Scuffletown Ohio River tavern landing?

Gray area. Land status not confirmed; a national wildlife refuge was proposed here in 2001, so check whether any land is now federal before detecting.

What can you find at Scuffletown Ohio River tavern landing?

Large cents, Seated silver, Civil War bullets and buttons, flatboat and steamboat hardware, trade items, cut nails, stoneware, bottles

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Scuffletown Ohio River tavern landing

Ghost town Documented siteGray area

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Nails and fittings

Also reported: Large cents, trade items, stoneware, bottles.

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

Why this spot

1800-1937 Ohio River landing and farm town

Grew from an 1800 tavern and trading post popular with flatboatmen, later adding a school, church, a tobacco stemmery shipping to Europe, a steam gristmill and a post office from 1868. Union troops were stationed here in 1863; the 1913 flood started an exodus and the 1937 flood finished it.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

floodplain, river

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