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Nitro (Kanawha and Putnam Counties)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: World War One powder-plant boom town.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1920s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Kanawha River

LOC earliest digitized Sanborn is 1928; a planned WWI-era river town, later than the classic bottle era.

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