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Hickman bluff and levee port

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also 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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