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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 bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also 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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