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Port Blakely, WA

Blakely Harbor sawmill town

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1880s-1900s Port Blakely Mill Company saloon.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Puget Sound (Blakely Harbor)

A Sanborn of what was once the world's largest sawmill on a small Bainbridge harbor concentrates a huge multiethnic workforce's refuse on a short shoreline.

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