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Arkansas, Mississippi

Napoleon drowned confluence town

Old dump ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: brick scatter at low water.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

County seat at the Arkansas-Mississippi confluence that the river ate after the 1860s; wreckage of the town emerges on bars at extreme low water.

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