North Carolina
Tarboro, Edgecombe County
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Codd and soda bottlesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Tar River
Head of steamboat navigation on the Tar; one of the two earliest NC Sanborn dates (1884), signaling a fully built-out bottle-era town.
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