Alabama
Gadsden (Coosa River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: Upper-Coosa landing refuse: 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 Coosa River, the head of steamboat navigation for the upper Coosa valley trade.
Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as January 1885. Head-of-navigation river town with active bottle-era commerce.
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