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Palatka, Putnam County

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: St. Johns steamboat and cypress-lumber town and winter-tourist stop. Expect wharf dumps, cypress-mill refuse.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on St. Johns River, a major steamboat stop upriver from Jacksonville

Busy steamboat and rail transfer point; the landing and mill district concentrate datable refuse.

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