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Bayou Sara, LA

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: patent medicines.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River

Once the busiest Mississippi cotton port between New Orleans and Memphis; the riverfront town was repeatedly flooded and largely abandoned, sitting below the bluff town of St. Francisville.

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