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Scull Shoals ghost mill village

Old dump ground Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1800s-1880s mill brick.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Oconee River mill village with Georgia's first paper mill (1811) and antebellum cotton factory, abandoned after floods and erosion; brick ruins stand in the bottomland.

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