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Gas City, Grant County

Riverbank 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: Gas-era glass and window-glass 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 Mississinewa River, a town named for the natural-gas boom

Literally named for the gas boom and platted almost overnight, so its short intense 1890s occupation is concentrated around the river-side glass and factory district.

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