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Kentucky
Hickman bluff and levee port
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1905 historic-map era
Mississippi River county seat split between bluff top and levee-front bottom, a major 1800s tobacco and timber port battered by the 1912-13 floods; levee frontage and bluff lots hold the port era.
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