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Everett, WA
Port Gardner Bay mill and smelter city
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottlesAlso reported: waterfront lumber and smelter slag debris.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Puget Sound (Port Gardner Bay)
An 1893 Sanborn captures a rapidly platted industrial boomtown on Port Gardner Bay whose mills and smelter drew a dense, refuse-generating workforce.
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