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Lake Providence oxbow cotton town

Lake shore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: war-era relics.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Cotton town on a Mississippi oxbow used by Grant's 1863 canal scheme; lakefront and old landing refuse spans the plantation century.

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