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Mississippi
Mound Bayou historic Delta town lots
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso 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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