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Baden, CA
South Bay stockyard flat on San Francisco Bay
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottlesAlso reported: 1880s-1910s stockyard.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on San Francisco Bay (Colma Creek bayshore)
The Baden stockyards town mapped by Sanborn in 1892 was a dense industrial bayshore settlement, its privies and slough-edge dumps are rich, sealed bottle ground.
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