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Fort White phosphate boom village

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

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

Seminole War fort site that boomed in the 1890s hard-rock phosphate rush with mines and rail spurs, then shrank after the 1914 bust; mine-camp dumps dot the woods.

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