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