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Shoals White River shell town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Martin County seat on the East Fork of the White River where mussel shelling and button-blank cutting worked the riffles around 1900; shell heaps and river lots mark the trade.
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