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Illinois
Hennepin canal-junction county seat
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
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Putnam County seat on the Illinois River near the eastern end of the 1907 Hennepin Canal, with a steamboat landing history back to the 1830s; riverfront lots and ferry ground carry long refuse.
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