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Cordova copper-rail cannery port
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso 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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