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New Jersey
Glassboro (Whitney Glass Works town)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: and fruit jars, with cullet piles and kiln waste; classic South Jersey aqua and green glass around the old works and mill ponds.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Little Ease Run and the headwaters of Mantua Creek, a Delaware River tributary
LOC Sanborn coverage 1895 through 1949. Interior glasshouse town kept for its outsized bottle-making history rather than large water; work the mill ponds and factory margins. Confirmed earliest year from LOC record dates.
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