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West Virginia
Davis Blackwater lumber boomtown
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Highest town in the state, built overnight in the 1880s to strip the Blackwater spruce and tannery bark; mill flats and dump ground edge the river.
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