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Port Penn Delaware River fishing village

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: net weights, crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Sturgeon and shad fishery village on the Delaware from the 1700s; cabin and wharf refuse edges the marsh and river strand.

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