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Selma (Alabama River)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also 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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