Virginia
Onancock
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: oyster-trade debris, and buttons along the deep tidal creek and old town lots..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Onancock Creek, tidal to the Chesapeake Bay (Eastern Shore)
Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1912, at the late edge of the bottle era. Colonial-founded Eastern Shore steamboat port on a deep creek to the bay.
Keep exploring nearby
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