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Mount Savage firebrick and iron works town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: marked firebrick.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Rolled America's first iron rails in the 1840s and made famous firebrick for a century; works dumps and brick-marked refuse fill the hollow.

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