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Calvert cotton boomtown blocks
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Buttons and bucklesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1912 historic-map era
Houston and Texas Central boomtown of the 1870s, briefly among the largest Texas towns with a huge cotton gin; Victorian house lots and gullies hold boom refuse.
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