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California
Mendocino, CA
Big River mouth doghole lumber port
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: redwood-mill and hotel refuse.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Pacific coast (Big River mouth)
An 1890 Sanborn confirms a built-out mill town at a coastal river mouth, exactly the kind of doghole port whose privies and shoreline dumps hold dense bottle-era refuse.
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