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Lyons peppermint and canal county seat
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: peppermint vials.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1904 historic-map era
Canal county seat and world center of peppermint-oil distilling (Hotchkiss works) in the 1800s; essence bottles are a local signature find.
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