Virginia
Suffolk
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: and buttons along the Nansemond River landing and old downtown lots..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Nansemond River (tidal), tributary of the James / Hampton Roads
Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1885. Head-of-navigation trading point on the Nansemond, well built-out by the mid-1880s.
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