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Tennessee, Georgia

Ducktown copper basin camp

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: miners tools, slag-era glass.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Copper Basin mining town whose smelters denuded the hills from the 1850s to the 1980s; miner-era dumps lie across the red gullied ground.

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