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Hoquiam, WA

Grays Harbor lumber port

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Grays Harbor (Hoquiam River)

An 1892 Sanborn of Aberdeen's twin lumber town on Grays Harbor marks a mill-lined tidewater where worker refuse routinely went to the water's edge.

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