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Port Republic Shenandoah boating head

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: forge scrap.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Head of gundalow navigation on the South Fork Shenandoah where flour and iron loaded through the 1800s; old landing lots sit at the river forks.

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