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Port Townsend, WA

Admiralty Inlet Victorian port of entry

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1870s-1900s custom-house port saloon, ships-chandlery.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Puget Sound (Admiralty Inlet)

An 1888 Sanborn of the busiest Victorian port of entry on Puget Sound flags a compact, liquor-rich waterfront frozen in the bottle era by its later decline.

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