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Lecompton territorial capital landing

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Proslavery territorial capital of the 1850s with a Kansas River ferry landing and abandoned capitol grounds; period refuse lies in old lots below the constitution-era core.

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