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Winston-Salem Moravian and tobacco-city privies

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1912 historic-map era

Twin towns joining Moravian Salem, founded 1766, to the tobacco boomtown of Winston. Old town lots outside the historic core hold privy and dump pits from the 1800s-1920s.

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