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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 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
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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