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New Iberia, LA

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Sugar-country patent medicines, French-market bitters and gin.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Bayou Teche

Principal Bayou Teche sugar and salt town; steamboats worked the Teche to its wharves.

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