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Occoquan mill village at the tidal falls
Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
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
Colonial grist-mill village at the head of tide on Occoquan Creek; mill races and the tidal margin collected refuse from the 1790s on.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.