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Winnsboro Fairfield antebellum town lots

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

1908 historic-map era

Fairfield County seat and antebellum plantation town along the old Charlotte rail line, partly burned in Sherman's 1865 passage. Old back lots hold privy pits from before and after the war.

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