Alabama
Montgomery (Alabama River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: Steamboat-era riverfront discard: patent medicines, bitters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On the Alabama River at the historic riverboat landing and cotton wharves below the bluff downtown.
Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as October 1884. State-capital river port with heavy bottle-era commerce concentrated at the riverfront.
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