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Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: clay pipes, and buttons along the Pagan River wharves and historic Main Street lots..

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Pagan River, tidal tributary of the James

Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1897. Colonial-era river port with a compact, well-preserved bottle-era core.

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