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Fort Gibson (Grand River military post and steamboat head of navigation)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
AmberAmber
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: cut nails, buttons, and dropped hardware where riverbank erosion and old privy zones are exposed..

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Grand (Neosho) River near its mouth at the Arkansas River

Very early river port and one of the oldest garrisoned sites in the region, giving unusually deep pre-statehood occupation layers.

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