Delaware
Milton (Sussex County)
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: canning jars, clay pipes, ship and cannery hardware, cut nails, and coins along the Broadkill banks, old shipyard and wharf sites, and business-district back lots..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Shipbuilding and cannery town at the head of navigation on the tidal Broadkill River, which flows to Delaware Bay.
Broadkill shipbuilding town. Earliest LOC Sanborn read as July 1911 (bottle-era edge); coverage runs 1911, 1923, 1937. Included as the latest-starting site; the six 1885 towns above are the strongest pre-1900 leads.
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