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Oscoda Au Sable mouth lumber boomtown
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso 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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