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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 bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also 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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