Tennessee
Memphis (Mississippi River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: steamboat hardware, and 1870s to 1900s dump refuse washing out of the bluff face; privy pits behind old Front Street and Beale lots hold intact medicine, bitters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River, at the Chickasaw Bluffs, with the Wolf River mouth and old Cotton Row landings
Major antebellum river port and Civil War occupied city; deep, long-lived dumping along the landing makes this one of the strongest bottle sites in the state. May already be in our atlas; dedupe by coordinates.
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