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South Bend, WA
Willapa Bay oyster and mill town
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottlesAlso reported: 1890s-1910s self-styled Baltimore of the Pacific saloon.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Willapa Bay (Willapa River)
An 1892 Sanborn of a railroad-boom oyster and mill town on Willapa Bay marks a briefly crowded tidewater built out right in the bottle era.
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