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Anacortes, WA
Fidalgo Bay cannery port
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottlesAlso reported: 1890s-1910s salmon-cannery and mill waterfront, cannery-worker.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Puget Sound (Fidalgo Bay and Guemes Channel)
An 1890 Sanborn of a railroad-terminus and cannery town on Fidalgo Bay flags a shoreline packed with canneries and the bottle-generating crews that ran them.
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