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Bartow phosphate-boom dumps
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1892 historic-map era
Polk County seat that boomed with the 1880s hard-rock phosphate rush; back lots and dumps from the boom years.
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