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Erie lost Black Warrior River county seat
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Large cents, Spanish reales, pipe stems, pearlware and creamware sherds, steamboat-era bottle glass.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1820-1838 county seat and cotton port, abandoned by 1933
Erie was the first seat of Greene County and a cotton shipping port on a bend of the Black Warrior River, with stores, a hotel, a jail and about 1,500 people. It faded after the seat moved to Eutaw in 1838, helped along by yellow fever and floods, and its last house burned in 1933.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
riverbank floodingRemote, ticks and snakes
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