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Indiana

Evansville, Vanderburgh County

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: and salt-glazed stoneware along the old riverfront and levee lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Ohio River, a major steamboat port on a bend of the river

Largest Ohio River city in Indiana and a deep antebellum-to-bottle-era port, so riverbank fill, old wharf areas and privy pits behind riverfront blocks are prime.

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