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Howardsville canal landing at the Rockfish
Riverbank 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
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
James River and Kanawha Canal landing at the Rockfish confluence that shipped tobacco and flour before floods and railroads killed it; a near-ghost hamlet remains on old warehouse ground.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.