Where: Delaware · approx. 38.91, -75.43 (vicinity only)
Why this spot: 1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Shipbuilding town straddling the tidal Mispillion River, which runs to Delaware Bay; shipyards and wharves lined both banks.
What turns up: Shipyard-era and bottle-era finds: druggist and soda bottles, blob-top beers, stoneware jugs, ship and rigging hardware, clay pipes, cut and wrought nails, buttons, and coins along the Mispillion banks, old shipyard sites, and mill and warehouse lots.
Access: Gray area.
Delaware framing: the bed of the tidal Mispillion River below the mean high-water line is state-owned public-trust tideland where removing historic artifacts is restricted; the shipyard banks and townsite uplands are usually private and need the landowner's permission; state law protects archaeological sites and unmarked burials. Check current rules first.
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Pins are approximate by design. This page is historical research, not permission to dig. Check ownership and local law first.