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Caruthersville, MO

Bootheel Mississippi River cotton and steamboat port

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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

Also reported: 1880s-1910s saloon, beer.

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

Why this spot

1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River

A busy steamboat and cotton port mapped by Sanborn on the lower Mississippi is a strong late bottle-era candidate.

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