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My hometown is Anniston, Scottsboro is a pretty little town as well.

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Here's a link to a YouTube video of a bottle dig in Anniston--it will likely make most members here cringe:

Although I was too young to remember anything about it, whatever US Army base was located near Anniston in 1952 was, as far as I know, my first residence in the USA. My dad was a WWII vet who served a second hitch after the war with the occupation forces. He met my mother-to-be working at a PX snackbar. Later, I was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
 

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Here's a link to a YouTube video of a bottle dig in Anniston--it will likely make most members here cringe:

Although I was too young to remember anything about it, whatever US Army base was located near Anniston in 1952 was, as far as I know, my first residence in the USA. My dad was a WWII vet who served a second hitch after the war with the occupation forces. He met my mother-to-be working at a PX snackbar. Later, I was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
We currently have the Anniston Army Depot still in operation. But I believe you are speaking of Ft. Mclellan. It has been demilitarized and is now a large variety of different amenities. In its heyday it was a major operations point for our military.

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We currently have the Anniston Army Depot still in operation. But I believe you are speaking of Ft. Mclellan. It has been demilitarized and is now a large variety of different amenities. In its heyday it was a major operations point for our military.

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Thanks for the info! I believe it was Fort McClellan. With both of my folks gone I'd not heard the name mentioned in quite some time.
 

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Thanks for the info! I believe it was Fort McClellan. With both of my folks gone I'd not heard the name mentioned in quite some time.
Absolutely, and I have quite a lot of info on the area. If there is anything you would like to know I can try and help.

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Can you see the date on the broken Coke & what city listed on bottom? LEON.
I haven't forgotten about getting the date of this bottle if I can. I also have several small green jar type and a cobalt blue that I believe is Phillip's or Vick's. Several other bottle jars as well. I'll get the picture tomorrow and post them.

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And the additional items that I have recovered recently. Since are repeated from prior post but I know now that I have found the dump, and a ditch that was fed by two other dwellings near the property.
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Success! Nice discovery for sure. Hope there is alot more where they came from. I guess you'll find out.
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Success! Nice discovery for sure. Hope there is alot more where they came from. I guess you'll find out.
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Well from roughing in boundaries it covers an are 22'x44' the bottles start 1/2" under the dirt and I dug nearly 2 feet down and still finding glass. There's a ton of heart breaks...but getting several unharmed

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Well from roughing in boundaries it covers an are 22'x44' the bottles start 1/2" under the dirt and I dug nearly 2 feet down and still finding glass. There's a ton of heart breaks...but getting several unharmed

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Wow that's a decent size dump for a farm. Exciting for you and us too! Keep us posted to your finds. Thanks
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Wow that's a decent size dump for a farm. Exciting for you and us too! Keep us posted to your finds. Thanks
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This is on the edge of the property where it meets the next farm and at the very back of the original homesteads line, I'm guess the other 3 properties all used the one site as a dump. Some is burnt, other areas have large rock and there's wire all around

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