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Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: Canal-basin and warehouse debris where the C&O Canal met the Potomac: boatmen's and tavern dumps, and embossed local druggist, and beer bottles near the old aqueduct, turning basin, and worker rows..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Potomac River at the mouth of Conococheague Creek and a major Chesapeake and Ohio Canal town.

One of the busiest C&O Canal ports on the Potomac; a genuine canal-trade town though the Sanborn horizon here is later.

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