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West Point

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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

Also reported: oyster-trade debris, and buttons where the two rivers meet the York..

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 York River at the Mattaponi and Pamunkey confluence

Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1895. Steamboat and rail terminus surrounded by tidal water on three sides.

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