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Vincennes, Knox 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 salt-glazed stoneware in privies behind the old French-era and 19th-century commercial core..

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 Wabash River, the oldest town in Indiana on the lower Wabash

Indiana's oldest town, so the deepest and earliest deposits in the state lie under the old core, but that same age means extra care around potential burials and protected sites.

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