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Smithland Cumberland mouth transfer point
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Antebellum transfer town at the Cumberland-Ohio confluence where Nashville trade met the Ohio packets; the faded landing and hotel row front a bank with a strong pre-1870 horizon.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.