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Louisiana
Jennings rice colony and first oil town
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: oil-camp relics.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1906 historic-map era
Iowa-colonist rice town where Louisiana's first oil well blew in 1901; boom-era dumps ring the old depot grid and bayou margins.
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