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Fort Gaines, Clay County

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: Applied-lip and tooled whiskeys, where cotton was loaded for the run downriver to Apalachicola..

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Chattahoochee River

A bluff-top Chattahoochee steamboat landing and cotton shipping point; the 1890 Sanborn confirms a bottle-era town tied directly to river trade.

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