Providence waterfront and river wards

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottles

Codd and soda bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: The state's largest port and industrial city. In filled cove and riverfront land, old tavern and privy sites and dense tenement back lots expect a full range of black-glass, beers, plus clay pipes..

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Head of Narragansett Bay at the confluence of the Providence, Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck rivers