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Tuscaloosa (Black Warrior River)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Fall-line river-town glass: patent medicines, bitters, whiskey.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On the Black Warrior River at the fall line, a former state capital and river-shipping town.

Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as November 1884. Long-settled river town with deep bottle-era layers along the waterfront.

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