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Urbanna Creek tobacco and oyster port
Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: oyster-house crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
1680 tobacco-rolling port that became a Chesapeake oyster and steamboat town; creek-edge fill behind the old wharves dates from the packet era.
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