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Ferguson drowned lumber town, Lake Marion

Lake shore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: mill brick, machinery (observation).

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Santee River Cypress Lumber Company town of the 1890s-1910s whose brick stacks and refuse emerge at Lake Marion low water since the 1941 flooding.

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