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Topeka Kansas River capital riverfront

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 territorial-to-early-statehood small finds near the old crossing and warehouse district..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Kansas River (Kaw), through the city

State capital founded 1854 astride the Kaw; the 1883 Sanborn coverage frames the riverfront commercial core where early glass concentrates.

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