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Mount Vernon, WA

Skagit River head-of-navigation town

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1880s-1910s river-landing saloon, mercantile.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Skagit River

An 1890 Sanborn of the head-of-navigation trade town on the Skagit marks a river port whose steamboat landing drove a dense commercial waterfront.

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