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East, West Virginia
Wheeling WV
Glasshouse privies & Ohio River bank
Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: clay marbles, glasshouse cullet.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Antebellum glass and pottery boomtown on the Ohio; its 19th-century privies and river fill hold Wheeling glasshouse product
Weelunk feature documents named Wheeling privy diggers and their finds; antique-bottles.net WV threads and WV Living confirm the collecting scene
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Deep unshored privy shaftsUrban fill glass and metal, river current
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