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Manitowoc River harbor and shipyards

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: druggist bottles, and shipyard and lakeport dump material..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Lake Michigan harbor and the Manitowoc River

Shipbuilding and brewing port; earliest LOC Sanborn edition read is 1883.

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