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South Boston

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: Bright-leaf tobacco-market town on the Dan: warehouse, saloon, bitters, clay pipes, and coins along the riverbank and old warehouse-district lots..

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Dan River (interior river)

Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1889. Major tobacco-auction town on the Dan River (Staunton/Roanoke system).

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