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Pittsboro Chatham courthouse-town privies

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Chatham County seat laid out in the 1780s, a piedmont court and trade town. Old lots around the courthouse circle hold privy and refuse pits.

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