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Southeast, Mississippi
Natchez MS
Under-the-Hill batture
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: steamboat-era glass, crockery, machinery scrap.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
The rowdiest landing on the antebellum Mississippi, flatboat and steamboat district below the bluff, most of it long since caved into the river
Silver Street district is NRHP-listed and HABS-recorded, riverbank finds are plausible but not publicly documented, hence not tier 1
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Collapsing mud banksBarge wakes, fast current, sinking sand
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