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Bartlesville (Caney River and early oil boom)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

AmberAmber
Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: stoneware shards, and early oilfield hardware in eroding banks and fill..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Wikited at English Wikipedia (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Caney River, a tributary of the Verdigris

Site of Oklahoma's first commercial oil well on the Caney River; the 1904 Sanborn captures the start of the oil boom.

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