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Bladensburg Anacostia tobacco port
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
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
Colonial tobacco port at the head of the Anacostia that silted after the 1700s; battle of 1814 ground, dig only private lots with care.
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