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Arkansas
Napoleon lost river port at the Arkansas mouth
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Large cents, Spanish reales, medicine bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1830s-1874 Mississippi River port and county seat
Napoleon was a river port and Desha County seat at the mouth of the Arkansas River with a large wharf, a Catholic church and a federal Marine Hospital finished in 1854. Union occupation from 1862 emptied and stripped the town, and river erosion then carried most of it into the Mississippi by the mid-1870s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Mississippi River currents, mud, remote
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