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Big Stone Gap coalfield boom lots

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

1908 historic-map era

Coalfield boom town of the 1890s in far southwest Virginia. Rapid growth left privies and dumps.

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