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This 0.22 caliber bullet was recovered from a tree at the Grinter Place State Historic Site in Wyandotte County. The slug was discovered by a site administrator who related: "Bullet found about 4' high in the heart of the Cottonwood tree at the south corner of the Grinter property. Four or five other bullets are still embedded in the wood." Grinter Place is a two-story brick home overlooking the Delaware Crossing on the Kansas River, and is now in the National Register of Historic Places. Moses and Annie Grinter, the latter was a member of the Lenape (Delaware) tribe, owned and operated a ferry and trading post there. Grinter Place was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Date: 1855-1950
Item Number: 508772
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 508772
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians - Tribes - Delaware
People - European Americans
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Historic sites - Grinter Place
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
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