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Port Angeles, WA

Strait of Juan de Fuca harbor town

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: 1890s-1910s harbor-town saloon.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Strait of Juan de Fuca (Port Angeles Harbor)

An 1897 Sanborn of a naturally sheltered harbor town on the Strait marks a compact waterfront that built out and generated refuse squarely in the bottle era.

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