Alabama
Mobile (Mobile Bay / Mobile River Gulf port)
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: applied-lip whiskey and bitters, patent medicines.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Head of Mobile Bay at the mouth of the Mobile River; the antebellum-to-1900 Gulf cotton and import port with a busy commercial waterfront and wharves.
Confirmed Sanborn coverage from the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as 1885. The most artifact-dense waterfront in the state but also the most developed and regulated, so surface prospecting and permission matter most here.
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