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Alabama, Mississippi

Waterloo foot-of-shoals steamboat stop

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Tennessee River town at the foot of Muscle Shoals where steamboat cargo transferred around the rapids from the 1820s; landing ground now fronts Pickwick backwater.

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