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Bellingham, WA

Bellingham Bay coal and cannery port

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1880s-1910s coal-bunker.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Puget Sound (Bellingham Bay)

Sanborn coverage of the merged Bellingham Bay towns marks a coal, salmon and lumber shoreline whose four boomtowns crowded the same water in the bottle era.

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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Racehorse Creek WA: plant fossils28 km away · Fossil site
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