South Carolina
Georgetown
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Wreck timber
Sea potteryPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS photo (Public domain), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On the Sampit River at the head of Winyah Bay, where the Pee Dee, Waccamaw, and Black rivers reach the sea.
LOC editions run 1884 through the 1920s; classic Lowcountry rice-and-cotton port.
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