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Holly Springs rail town gully dumps
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Buttons and bucklesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1885 historic-map era
Cotton and rail town raided in 1862 and devastated by the 1878 yellow fever epidemic; gullies off the square took a century of dumping.
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