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Ketchikan cannery and creek pilings
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Salmon cannery town from the 1880s whose Creek Street red-light district stood on pilings; the tideflats below took decades of refuse.
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