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Claiborne lost Alabama River port
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: coins-era buttons.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Once the biggest cotton port on the lower Alabama River with thousands of residents in the 1830s, now open ground at the bluff; town refuse remains in the plow zone and gullies.
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