Kansas
Lawrence Kansas River riverfront and old wards
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
MarblesAlso reported: and burned-layer artifacts tied to the 1863 Quantrill raid, plus Free-State and Civil War era small finds..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Kansas River (Kaw), south bank
Free-State stronghold sacked in 1856 and burned by Quantrill in 1863; the riverfront and adjacent old wards in the 1883 Sanborn are high-interest deposit zones.
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