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Tracy City coke ovens mountain town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Cumberland Plateau coal and coke town of the 1850s-1930s with bank after bank of beehive ovens; oven rows and camp refuse edge the gulfs.

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