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Gastonia Gaston mill-city privies

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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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

1910 historic-map era

Gaston County cotton-mill city ringed by mill villages by 1900, a booming textile center. Old town and mill-village lots hold privy and dump pits.

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