Milford (Kent and Sussex Counties)

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottles

Codd and soda bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: blob-top beers, ship and rigging hardware, clay pipes, cut and wrought nails, buttons, and coins along the Mispillion banks, old shipyard sites, and mill and warehouse lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Shipbuilding town straddling the tidal Mispillion River, which runs to Delaware Bay; shipyards and wharves lined both banks.