Dayton (near Tennessee River)

Where: Tennessee · approx. 35.5, -85.01 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: 1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Richland Creek draining to the Tennessee River (Chickamauga Lake reach a few miles east)

What turns up: Creek banks and the old ironworks and rail district: hand-blown bottles, stoneware, and 1880s to 1900s industrial dump glass; privies behind early commercial lots hold medicine and whiskey bottles.

Access: Gray area.

Navigable-water bottomland below the ordinary high-water mark is state public-trust ground restricting artifact removal; creek banks and town lots are private and need permission. Archaeological sites and unmarked graves are protected.

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.