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Watsonville, CA

Pajaro River sloughs at Monterey Bay

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1870s-1900s apple-shipping.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Pacific coast (Pajaro River / Watsonville Slough)

An 1886 Sanborn documents a busy slough port with a large Chinatown, the sloughs and back-lot privies are exactly where bottle-era material concentrates.

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