Alabama
Camden (Alabama River, Wilcox County)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso 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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