Petersburg

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottles

Crystals and minerals

Old bottles

Also reported: Old tobacco and rail city at the falls: rich hotel, saloon, bitters, stoneware, clay pipes, and coins along the Appomattox bank and behind old-town 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 Appomattox River (fall line), tributary of the James