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Portlock salmon-cannery village

Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Mercury dimes, Lincoln cents, cannery tin and can scraps, net weights.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1910s-1951 cannery village

Salmon cannery community on Port Chatham bay south of Seldovia with a post office from 1921, mostly Alutiiq residents. It was abandoned in the 1940s for road-connected towns and the post office closed in 1950-51.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote boat or air access, bears

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