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Elizabethton (Watauga and Doe Rivers)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Watauga River at the mouth of the Doe River, meeting in the old town

Historic Watauga settlement at the Watauga and Doe confluence; Sanborn coverage begins 1902, at the late edge of the bottle era.

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