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Ilion Remington works canal town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: gun-shop scrap, crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1900 historic-map era

The Remington arms and typewriter works grew beside the Erie Canal here from the 1840s; worker housing and canal-front fill date to the privy era.

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