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Mound Bayou historic Delta town lots

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

All-Black town founded in 1887 by Isaiah Montgomery in the Delta, self-governing and prosperous into the 1900s; town-lot refuse.

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