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Pilot Town, Louisiana, in the 1880s. Community on piers in the swamps of the end of the lower Mississippi River delta, where ocean ships took on pilots for navigating the river.
Source

Engraving from book "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain, 1883, via [1]
Date

1883
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