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Commerce early Mississippi landing
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
One of the oldest Missouri landings on the Mississippi below the Cape, trading since the 1790s and repeatedly cut by floods; the shrunken village sits on deep landing ground.
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