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Clifton Forge

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: C&O Railway shop town in the mountains: railroad-worker, hotel, clay pipes, and buttons along the Jackson River and the packed valley-floor lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Jackson River, headwater tributary of the James

Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1891. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway division and shop town squeezed along the Jackson River.

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