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Hardin Calhoun apple-boat landing
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1912 historic-map era
Calhoun County seat on the lower Illinois River where apple and produce boats loaded for St. Louis into the 1930s; wharf frontage and ferry approaches carry steady refuse.
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