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Southeast, Florida
Port St Joe FL
Old St Joseph ghost-town bayshore
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Wreck timber
Sea potteryAlso reported: eyes-only: brick fragments.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Boomtown of 1835-1841, once Florida's largest town and site of its first constitutional convention, wiped out by yellow fever and an 1844 hurricane
Town site and its destruction are well documented, artifact material is sparse and mostly recorded by historians rather than collectors
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Afternoon stormsStingrays in the shallows
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