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Branchville rail junction town ground
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1911 historic-map era
Claimed as the oldest railroad junction in the country, a branch point of the 1830s Charleston-Hamburg line; junction-era refuse lies behind the depot blocks and in town-edge ditches.
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