Virginia
Portsmouth
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: stoneware, and pipe stems along the Elizabeth River bank and behind Olde Towne lots..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Elizabeth River (west branch), Hampton Roads / Chesapeake
Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1888. Continuous naval port since the 18th century, dense bottle-era build-out facing Norfolk across the river.
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