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Bridgeport, Long Island Sound harbor city

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Old harbor bulkheads.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Bridgeport Harbor and Pequonnock River mouth on Long Island Sound

Major deepwater industrial port; brass, corset and carriage works ringed the harbor. Fill and privies behind the 1880s waterfront blocks are the target, not the tidal flats.

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