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Pomeroy salt and coal bank-side dumping

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: salt-works debris.

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

Why this spot

1886 historic-map era

A one-street salt and coal town squeezed between hillside and the Ohio River; with no back lots, refuse historically went straight over the bank.

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