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Southeast, Kentucky
Paducah KY
Ohio-Tennessee confluence landing
Riverbank Inferred from historyGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: steamboat-era glass, crockery, coal clinker.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1827 Clark-founded river town at the meeting of the Tennessee and Ohio, wharfboat and packet landing at the foot of Broadway for a century
Landing history is marker-documented but no published find accounts for the bank, inference only
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Strong confluence currentsSudden river rises, mud over rip-rap
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