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Fort Meade Peace River phosphate town

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Oldest Polk County town, a Seminole War post then a cattle and river-pebble phosphate town of the 1880s-1900s; dredge-camp and town refuse lines the Peace River.

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