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Rhode Island
Warren River waterfront
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: An old whaling and oystering port. Riverfront lots, oyster-trade debris.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Warren River where it meets the head of Narragansett Bay
Earliest LOC Sanborn is March 1887, followed by 1892, 1898, 1903 and 1911, confirming a built-out bottle-era town.
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