Virginia
Lynchburg
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Crystals and minerals
Old bottlesAlso 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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