Is it legal to collect at Old Wadena trading post and townsite?

Restricted. The district is a National Register archaeological site largely within Old Wadena County Park; county park rules apply and disturbing archaeological features is not allowed without authorization.

What can you find at Old Wadena trading post and townsite?

trade beads, gunflints, musket balls, trade silver, brass scrap, early coins, buttons, hand-forged nails

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Old Wadena trading post and townsite

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Trade beads

Flint and stone tools

Coins and tokens

Also reported: musket balls, brass scrap, buttons, hand-forged nails.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Unknown (CC BY 4.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

1782-1870s fur trade posts and Red River Trail town

Site of four successive trading posts from 1782 to 1856 at the Crow Wing and Partridge rivers, plus the original Wadena townsite on the Red River Trails and the county's first farm. The town later moved 3.5 miles south and the district was listed on the National Register in 1973 for its archaeology.View source →