Tennessee
Dayton (near Tennessee River)
Lake shore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Old bottles
Sea potteryPhotos 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.
Keep exploring nearby
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