Wabash and Erie Canal Wharf Area

Landmark is currently completing the final report for the mitigation of the Wabash and Erie Canal wharf area in Lafayette Indiana, uncovered during construction as part of a railroad relocation project. The site was composed of over eight city blocks, and involved hundreds of thousands of artifacts. Recovered was an extensive collection of late nineteenth century leather footware, hundreds of bottles and ceramic items, and thousands of animal bones that revealed much about urban living during the industrial age.
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1868 Birds-Eye View of Lafayette, Indiana, showing the Wabash and Erie Canal, the Wabash River, and the downtown area.
Ceramic bottle, late-1800s, intact. Found in the general fill between the canal wharf walls in 1993. Cobalt blue alcoholic beverage bottle, 1870s to 1880s. From the general fill collection, 1993. 1850s to 1870s photo of a barge on the Wabash and Erie Canal, traveling between Lafayette and Delphi, Indiana.
Ceramic pipe bowl, late-1800s, mostly intact. Found in the general fill between the canal wharf walls in 1993.
Photo of four soda-water bottles, 1870s to 1880s, some bottled in Lafayette, Indiana. From the general fill collection, 1993.
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