Alabama
Tuscumbia (Tennessee River / Spring Creek landing)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: Early river-and-rail town glass: patent medicines, bitters, applied-top whiskey.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Just south of the Tennessee River, historically served by Tuscumbia Landing on the river via Spring Creek; an early cotton-shipping and railroad town.
Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as December 1884. One of the oldest towns in the Shoals with an early river landing and a very early rail connection.
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