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Naples early Illinois River port
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
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
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
One of the earliest Illinois River ports, platted in the 1820s and busy with steamboats and grain before railroads passed it by; a very small town on deep landing ground.
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