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West Virginia
Welch Tug Fork coal county seat
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
1913 historic-map era
McDowell County seat packed into the Tug Fork forks during the Pocahontas coal boom; creek-bank and hollow dumps date from the crowded boom decades.
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