Delaware City (New Castle County)

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottles

Codd and soda bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: clay pipes, boat and rigging hardware, cut nails, and coins around the old canal basin, lock tender sites, hotel yards, and river landings..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Founded at the Delaware River terminus of the original Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; canal basin, locks, and river wharves defined the town.