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Michigan City, LaPorte County

Lake shore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: and stoneware around the harbor, Trail Creek banks and old lakefront commercial lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of Trail Creek

Indiana's only Lake Michigan port and a busy harbor and manufacturing town, so harbor fill and creek-side privies are prime but the public-trust shoreline is tightly regulated.

Keep exploring nearby

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