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Originally Posted by Northwest
Any chance of unearthing some historical artifacts at this site? Not sure what could possibly remain, but surely there are bits and pieces of Chicago's earliest history in that soil somewhere. I'm not sure if the excavator operators are trained to keep their eyes open for certain clues, but they are surely aware they would be the first to stumble upon an unexpected find.
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What they dig up here will be
1) old pine pile, sharpened pine trees driven into the mud, some over a century ago. The airless mu preserves them very well.
2) possibly old cofferdam - layers of planks overlapped to keep the shore from sliding into the river.
3) old foundations - like the piers dug up in the photos from today.
4) ---- possibly ---- part of the old underground freight system.
Nothing much more than that - the locals wouldn't have lived here before the Europeans, and anything that was there would have been wiped when the old warehouses were built.
(corrections to this greatly appreciated).