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Bobcaygeon first Trent lock and lumber wharves

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Site of the first Trent-Severn lock, built 1833, and a busy sawmill and steamboat village through the Kawartha lumber era.

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