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Durham tobacco factory era dumps
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: tobacco tins and tags.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1888 historic-map era
Boom tobacco factory town from the 1870s; ravines and creek edges around the factory district took heavy household and factory dumping.
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