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Tappahannock Rappahannock wharf reach

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Colonial-chartered Rappahannock River port that kept steamboat wharves into the 1920s; waterfront lots and bank fill hold town refuse from two centuries of trade.

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