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Ponca City (Arkansas River and Cherokee Outlet boomtown)

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: and early oil-era hardware in eroding banks and fill..

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 Arkansas River

Founded in the 1893 Cherokee Outlet run on the Arkansas and later an oil center; concentrated early occupation.

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