Maryland
Williamsport
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stems
Codd and soda bottlesAlso 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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