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BOTTLE DIGGING GRAY AREA CONFIRMED

Where: Virginia · approx. 36.7, -78.9 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: 1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Dan River (interior river)

What turns up: Bright-leaf tobacco-market town on the Dan: warehouse, saloon, and merchant refuse with blob and hutchinson sodas, local druggist bottles, bitters, stoneware, clay pipes, and coins along the riverbank and old warehouse-district lots.

Access: Gray area.

The Dan River bed below the ordinary low-water line is Commonwealth public-trust land where relic removal is restricted; private warehouse and town lots on the Sanborn footprint need the owner's permission. State law protects archaeological sites.

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

Pins are approximate by design. This page is historical research, not permission to dig. Check ownership and local law first.