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Elwood, Madison County

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Macbeth-Evans glass and tin-plate era cullet.

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Pipe Creek and Duck Creek, a Gas Belt glass and tin-plate town

A sudden gas-boom industrial town with 1892 Sanborn coverage, so occupation is compressed and intense around the creek-side factory district.

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