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Rowlesburg B and O Cheat River town
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).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Baltimore and Ohio bridge and helper-engine town on the Cheat, fought over in 1863 and flood-scoured since; rail-era refuse lines the bank.
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