Illinois
Havana, Mason County Illinois River 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
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Illinois River
Center of the freshwater-mussel button and commercial fishing trade; shell-heap shorelines mark the button-shop refuse.
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