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Liberia, Maryland County

Harper Maryland colony cape settlement

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Americo-Liberian settlement of 1834 at Cape Palmas, once elegant with mansions and a busy roadstead, heavily war-damaged; shorefront and ruin ground carry settlement refuse.

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