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Charleston bootheel county-seat dumps

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1909 historic-map era

Mississippi County seat in the bootheel, a farm and rail town from the 1830s; backlot and town-dump refuse.

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