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New Orleans, LA

Lake shore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: patent medicines.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain

Largest antebellum river port in the state; batture, old wharf frontage and filled back-of-town canals are classic privy/dump strata. May already be in the atlas; dedupe by coordinates.

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