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Bayou La Batre seafood cannery bayou

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: shell midden glass.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Seafood capital canning oysters and shrimp since the 1890s; cannery shell piles and dumped ware line the bayou banks.

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