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Root River mouth and harbor

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Brewery and bottling-works blob-tops, bitters, and harbor and factory-district dump material..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Lake Michigan harbor and the Root River

Root River harbor and manufacturing town; earliest LOC Sanborn edition read is 1887.

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