Alabama
Gainesville (Tombigbee River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: bitters, applied-lip whiskey.
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 Tombigbee River, a once-thriving antebellum cotton-shipping port in the Black Belt that later declined.
Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as November 1884. A shrunken town preserving good undisturbed bottle-era ground near a historically busy river landing.
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