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Nicaragua, Río San Juan Department
Greytown abandoned transit-route port
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: transit-era relics (record only).
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Greytown boomed on the Vanderbilt transit route to California, was bombarded by the US Navy in 1854, and was finally abandoned to the jungle; its cemeteries and town traces survive.
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