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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 bottles
Sea potteryAlso 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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