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Wesson Mississippi Mills factory town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: mill crockery.

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

Why this spot

1895 historic-map era

Home of Mississippi Mills, the largest textile works in the Lower South from the 1870s until the 1910 closure; factory ground and worker-row dumps flank the Illinois Central line.

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