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Doctortown Altamaha rail crossing

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Altamaha River rail crossing and timber-rafting landing defended in 1864, later a sawmill and pulp settlement; landing and village refuse spreads along the bluff.

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