Chesapeake City

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea pottery

Clay pipe stems

Codd and soda bottles

Also reported: Canal-era debris along the old C&D Canal basin and lock: boatmen's and tavern dumps, and embossed local druggist, and beer bottles near the waterfront and pump-house works..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Straddles the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal at the upper Chesapeake Bay; 19th-century canal port.