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Wharton

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also 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.

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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