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Cotton Gin Port Tombigbee trading town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Trade beads
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: large cents, musket balls, wrought nails, kaolin pipes.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (CC BY 4.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1801 to railroad era trading post and river town
The first European-American town in north Mississippi, at a Tombigbee crossing used by French expeditions and the site of a government cotton gin built in 1801 for the Chickasaw, later the end of Gaines Trace. When the railroad bypassed it for the new town of Amory, residents moved away.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
riverbank, waterway
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