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Fort Meade Peace River phosphate town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso 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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