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Middleport salt and coal bank landing
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: salt-works debris.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1899 historic-map era
Meigs County river town shipping salt and coal beside its larger neighbor from the 1840s; bank-side dumping below the commercial street was standard practice into the 1900s.
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