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Dayton (near Tennessee River)

Lake shore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Richland Creek draining to the Tennessee River (Chickamauga Lake reach a few miles east)

Coal-and-iron town whose center sits on Richland Creek a few miles west of the Tennessee River, not directly on the main channel; adjacency is via the creek and rail-to-river trade.

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