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Seattle, WA
Elliott Bay port and mill city
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottlesAlso reported: 1870s-1900s waterfront and Pioneer Square saloon, coal-bunker and tideflat fill debris, and Yesler mill dumpage.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Puget Sound (Elliott Bay)
Dense 1884-onward Sanborn coverage of a booming saloon-heavy tideflat port on Elliott Bay marks it as a prime bottle-era layer, much of it now under fill.
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