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Oquawka Yellow Banks landing
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Henderson County seat on the Yellow Banks reach of the Mississippi, a fur-trade and steamboat landing from the 1820s that the railroad skipped; old landing streets and lots hold antebellum material.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.