Virginia
Cape Charles
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: Planned railroad and steamer-ferry terminus on the bay: depot, hotel, and buttons along the harbor and grid-town lots facing the Chesapeake..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Chesapeake Bay (Eastern Shore, at the bay entrance)
Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1898. Built essentially from scratch in the late 1880s as the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk RR bay terminus.
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