Alabama
Decatur (Tennessee River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: River-and-rail junction discard: patent medicines, bitters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On the south bank of the Tennessee River, a river-and-rail transfer point below the shoals.
Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as December 1884. Old and New Decatur together formed a busy bottle-era river junction; shoreline now within TVA pool.
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