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Blount Springs mineral-resort dumps

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Fashionable 19th-century mineral-spring resort on the rail line; hotel-era refuse in the ravines below the grounds.

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