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Dunnellon hard-rock phosphate capital

Riverbank Documented siteGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: mining tools, saloon glass.

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

Why this spot

1913 historic-map era

Boomtown of the 1889 hard-rock phosphate discovery at the Withlacoochee-Rainbow junction; mining camps and saloon-era dumps ring the town and river.

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