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Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Big Cypress Bayou, the steamboat channel connecting through Caddo Lake to the Red River

Once Texas's great inland steamboat port; the trade collapsed after the 1870s, so deposits are heavily weighted to the rich 1850s to 1870s steamboat decades.

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