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Coupeville, WA

Penn Cove Whidbey Island town

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1870s-1900s sea-captain and mercantile-town saloon.

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Puget Sound (Penn Cove)

A Sanborn of one of the oldest towns on Puget Sound, a wharf-front trade center on Penn Cove, marks an early compact waterfront in the bottle era.

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