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Crooksville clay-corridor pottery dumps

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: jugs.

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

Why this spot

1905 historic-map era

Perry County village at the heart of the Ohio clay corridor, with dozens of bluebird potteries working from the 1880s to the Depression; hillside waster tips and household dumps surround the old works.

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