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Blakeley dead port town site

Old dump ground Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: brick, military relics (look only).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

1810s boom port on the Tensaw that rivaled Mobile before fever and bust emptied it; town grid and 1865 battlefield now lie in a preserved park.

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