Maryland
Port Deposit
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stems
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: Rafting, granite-quarry, and embossed local druggist, and beer bottles along the single main street and old wharf frontage..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Lower Susquehanna River just above the head of the Chesapeake Bay; granite and lumber rafting port.
Tightly linear river town squeezed against the Susquehanna; a lot of 19th-century life crammed near the water.
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