Delaware
New Castle (New Castle County)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: blob-top beers, clay pipes, buttons, buckles, cut nails, and coins along the riverfront green, old wharf approaches, and back lots of the colonial district..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Colonial river port directly on the Delaware River, with a long-used wharf, ferry crossing, and waterfront green.
One of the oldest European settlements on the Delaware. Earliest LOC Sanborn read as March 1885; coverage runs 1885, 1891, 1901, 1907, 1912, 1923, 1943. Intact colonial street grid.
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