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Indiana, Illinois
New Harmony Wabash colony backlots
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: pipes.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Rappite and then Owenite utopian colony town of 1814-1827 on the Wabash, later an ordinary river county town; deep occupation in backyards outside the preserved blocks.
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