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Matewan Tug Fork coal town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: mine-era relics, crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Tug Fork coal town of the 1890s N and W era, site of the 1920 mine-war shootout; floodwall-era digs revealed deep refuse layers along the riverbank.

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