Alabama
Selma (Alabama River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: bitters, whiskey.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On the north bank of the Alabama River, a major cotton-shipping port with a busy 19th-century wharf district.
Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as October 1884. Strong pre-1900 river-port target with documented pottery activity in the region.
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