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Ontonagon copper-era Lake Superior port
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
Sea potteryPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1893 historic-map era
Boca of the copper country in the 1850s and a lumber port until the 1896 fire leveled the town; river-mouth fill and rebuilt waterfront hold both layers.
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