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Jordan abandoned Erie Canal prism village
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: mule shoes.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
The enlarged Erie ran straight through the village until 1917; the drained prism and adjacent lots took a century of canal-era refuse.
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