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Ballard, WA
Salmon Bay shingle-mill town
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottlesAlso reported: 1890s-1900s shingle-mill and Scandinavian mill-town saloon.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Puget Sound (Salmon Bay)
An 1893 Sanborn of the self-styled shingle capital of the world on Salmon Bay, an independent city until 1907, marks a dense mill workforce's bottle-era refuse.
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