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Southeast, Tennessee
Memphis TN
Cobblestone Landing
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: eyes-only: mooring rings, worn cobbles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Largest surviving cobblestone steamboat landing on the Mississippi, cotton-era wharf paved 1859-1890s, freshly restored as a civic landmark
The landing and its wharf history are exhaustively documented by Memphis Heritage and the city, artifact finds are not, this is a look-only landmark
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Slick algae-covered cobblesSteep grade, barge wakes, fast rises
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