Brewton (Murder Creek / Burnt Corn Creek, Conecuh drainage)

Where: Alabama · approx. 31.11, -87.07 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: 1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on At the junction of Murder Creek and Burnt Corn Creek in the Conecuh River drainage, a wealthy late-19th-century longleaf-lumber town.

What turns up: Lumber-boom bottle refuse, often higher-end: patent medicines, bitters, imported and applied-top whiskey, and early Southern sodas along the creek corridor and old business blocks, plus stoneware.

Access: Gray area.

Alabama framing: the beds of navigable waters below the ordinary high-water mark are state-owned public-trust land where removing historic artifacts is restricted; the creek banks and town lots are usually private and need permission; state law protects archaeological sites and unmarked burials.

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.