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Illinois
Joliet canal, quarry and steel city
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1891 historic-map era
Illinois and Michigan Canal city that grew on limestone quarrying and steel; filled canal ground, quarry edges and worker districts hold dense 19th-century refuse.
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