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Griffin fall-line rail-town dumps

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1912 historic-map era

Founded 1840 on the Monroe Railroad, a busy antebellum and postwar trade town. Old town lots and rail-side ground hold privy and refuse pits from the 1840s onward.

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