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Illinois, Missouri
Thebes bluff courthouse landing
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Mississippi River town under its 1848 bluff-top courthouse, a busy antebellum landing that faded after the county seat left; steep landing streets and old lots hold pre-1880 refuse.
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