Seaford (Sussex County)

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottles

Codd and soda bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: clay pipes, steamboat and freight hardware, cut nails, buttons, and coins around the old Nanticoke wharves, warehouse rows, and hotel and store lots..

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on River port and steamboat stop on the tidal Nanticoke River, a major artery to the Chesapeake; wharves handled grain, lumber, and passengers.