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Elizabeth City Dismal Swamp Canal port

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: shingle-trade tools.

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

Why this spot

1885 historic-map era

Port town grown on Dismal Swamp Canal trade in shingles and produce; canal and Pasquotank margins carry early-1800s onward refuse.

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