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Bon Secour oyster village bayous

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: oyster crockery, cannery scrap.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

French-rooted fishing village on the Bon Secour River famous for oysters shipped to Mobile from the 1800s; cannery and dock refuse edges the bayous.

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