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Winton Chowan River courthouse landing

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: burned-layer artifacts, crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Chowan River county seat burned by Union gunboats in 1862 and rebuilt; steamboat landing ground and postwar refuse lie along the bluff foot.

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