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Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Tobacco and canal city on hills above the James: warehouse, saloon, bitters, stoneware, clay pipes, and coins along the riverfront and old commercial lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on James River at the fall line

Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1885. Fall-line tobacco entrepot and former James River and Kanawha Canal town.

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