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Rockport, Spencer County

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: and stoneware near the old landing and riverfront lots below the bluff..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Ohio River, on a bluff above the river

Smaller lower-Ohio landing town, less picked over than the big cities, with steamboat-era deposits near the wharf.

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