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Camden (Alabama River, Wilcox County)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: River-landing and county-seat glass: patent medicines, bitters, whiskey.

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on A Black Belt seat a few miles from the Alabama River, historically served by river landings at Prairie Bluff and Camden Landing.

Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as June 1894. Pre-1900 Black Belt town tied to Alabama River shipping through nearby bluff landings.

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