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Rhode Island
Block Island Old Harbor
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: An isolated fishing and Victorian resort island. Behind the old harbor hotels, medicines, and tableware sherds, with shipwreck-era debris along the shore..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Atlantic Ocean at Old Harbor, with the Great Salt Pond nearby, in the town of New Shoreham
LOC indexes the island under both Block Island (earliest, August 1886) and New Shoreham (1892 onward); the 1886 sheet confirms bottle-era resort build-out.
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