Is it legal to collect at Tahawus (Adirondac) iron works village?

Restricted. The Tahawus tract was bought in 2003 by the Open Space Institute in partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and is managed as conservation land; state rules bar removing artifacts.

What can you find at Tahawus (Adirondac) iron works village?

Large cents, Liberty Seated coins, furnace slag, forge and kiln iron, buttons, square nails, bottles

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Tahawus (Adirondac) iron works 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, furnace slag, bottles.

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

1827-1857 iron works company town

Company village of the Adirondack Iron Works, which ran a blast furnace, forge, puddling furnace, charcoal and brick kilns, trip hammers and a grist and saw mill, with sixteen dwellings and the first bank in the Adirondacks. Titanium-laden ore, a flood and the national economic crisis closed it in 1857, leaving the deserted village.View source →