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Danville

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Tobacco-market and textile-mill city on the Dan: warehouse, saloon, bitters, stoneware, clay pipes, and coins along the riverbank and old commercial lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Dan River (interior river)

Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1886. Major bright-leaf tobacco market and cotton-mill center on the Dan River.

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