Smyrna (Kent County)

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottles

Old bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: blob-top beers, canning jars, clay pipes, harness and wagon hardware, cut nails, and coins around the old landing, warehouse rows, and back yards of the 19th-century business district..

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Head-of-navigation grain and produce port on the tidal Smyrna River (via Duck Creek landing) leading to Delaware Bay.