Wilmington (New Castle County)

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottles

Codd and soda bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: embossed Wilmington brewery beers, clay pipe stems, cut nails, and copper coins around former riverfront wharf lots, hotel yards, and privy sites in the old commercial district..

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Sits at the confluence of the tidal Christina and Brandywine rivers where they meet the Delaware River; old wharves, ferry landings, and shipyards lined the Christina waterfront.