Alabama
Wetumpka (Coosa River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: Fall-line trade-town glass: patent medicines, bitters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Straddles the Coosa River just above its junction with the Tallapoosa, at the fall line where river navigation ended.
Confirmed Sanborn coverage on the live LOC index; earliest sheet read as January 1885. Fall-line head-of-navigation town with commerce on both banks.
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