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Oscoda Au Sable mouth lumber boomtown

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: melted glass.

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

Twin lumber boomtowns at the Au Sable mouth were leveled by the 1911 fire; river-mouth fill and burned-layer lots mark the boom decades.

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