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Narragansett Pier resort shore

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

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

Also 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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