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Cordova copper-rail cannery port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: cannery gear.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Ocean terminus of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway from 1908 and a big clam and salmon cannery port; waterfront fill holds rail and cannery refuse.

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