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Kingston (Tennessee and Clinch 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

Also reported: and ferry and steamboat-era iron; privies behind the old square yield 1890s to 1910s glass..

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

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Tennessee River at the mouth of the Clinch River (now Watts Bar)

Frontier river-junction town and briefly a state-capital site; sits at the Tennessee and Clinch confluence.

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