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Purrysburg vanished Swiss colony ground
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottlesAlso reported: glass (protected, do not dig).
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Vanished 1730s Swiss and Huguenot colony town on the Savannah River that failed and disappeared by the 1800s. The townsite is a documented colonial archaeological ground.
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