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Sheffield iron boom riverfront
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: furnace slag glass, crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1903 historic-map era
1880s speculative iron city above the Tennessee with furnaces on the riverbank; furnace-era slag and boom refuse spread below the bluff.
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