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Magnolia lost cotton port, St Marks River
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
1820s cotton port on the St Marks River with warehouses, hotel and newspaper, dead by the 1840s when Port Leon and railroads took the trade; only the cemetery marks it.
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