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Narragansett Pier resort shore
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: A fashionable Gilded-Age seaside resort. Behind the old hotels, perfumes and medicines, and tableware sherds from the summer-season crowds of the 1880s and 1890s..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Atlantic shore at Narragansett, facing the mouth of Narragansett Bay
LOC Sanborn coverage starts August 1884 and continues 1885, 1890, 1896, 1903 and 1910, tracking the resort's build-out.
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