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Pascagoula (Jackson County town at the river mouth, formerly Scranton)

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

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

Also reported: oyster-shell middens, and glass along the river-mouth and Sound banks..

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

Why this spot

1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Pascagoula River mouth and the Mississippi Sound

River-mouth Gulf town (early plats as Scranton); LOC-confirmed Sanborn coverage, earliest 1904.

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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Old seafood-cannery Point Cadet29 km away · Tidal foreshore
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