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New Bedford
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: Whaling-era and later cotton-mill waterfront debris: whale-oil and spermaceti containers.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Acushnet River estuary and New Bedford Harbor on Buzzards Bay
Nineteenth-century whaling capital of the world; earliest LOC Sanborn read as November 1888.
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