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Spartanburg textile-hub privy district

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

1910 historic-map era

Piedmont rail and textile hub ringed by cotton-mill villages by 1900. Old town and mill-village lots hold privy pits from the 1850s onward.

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