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Hobsonville Tillamook Bay cannery and mill town

Ghost town Documented siteGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: cannery tin scraps, net weights, bottles.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1883-1930s salmon cannery and sawmill town

Bay-shore town built around the Tillamook Packing Company salmon cannery from 1884, with a lumber mill, hotel, creamery and a railroad stop; the post office ran from 1883 to 1913. By 1940 the townsite was overgrown with alder.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

highway traffic, tidal mud

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