Texas
Wharton
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: and merchant glass; privy pits behind the commercial square holding beer.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on The Colorado River, at the lower-river crossing in the coastal plantation belt
Lower Colorado River cotton and sugar plantation town; the 1890s river-crossing commercial core is the bottle-era focus.
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