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Irvington steamboat wharf on Carters Creek

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: hotelware, oyster crockery.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Steamboat-era resort and oyster landing on Carters Creek off the Rappahannock, busiest 1870s-1920s before the packet lines died; wharf-edge fill lines the creek.

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