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Smackover 1922 oil boom camp ground
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: camp enamelware.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Village that exploded to 20000 people in the 1922 oil strike; derrick-field camps and boom dumps litter the creek bottoms under the pines.
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