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Murfreesboro Meherrin River landing

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Meherrin River port shipping cotton and staves to the Chowan trade from the late 1700s; the old landing and warehouse bluff sit below the historic district.

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