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Florence (Tennessee River)

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: Tennessee River waterfront glass: patent medicines, bitters, whiskey.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On the north bank of the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, a river-shipping town at the head of the shoals.

Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as December 1884. Muscle Shoals river town; note TVA impoundment has altered and regulates much of the old bank.

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