Illinois
Grafton, Jersey County Mississippi and Illinois confluence town
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Buttons and buckles
Old bottles
Sea potteryPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River
Sits at the mouth of the Illinois River; button-industry and fishing-camp refuse concentrates along the shell-heap shorelines.
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