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Georgetown

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Wreck timberWreck timber
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos 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.

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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