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Dennisville shipbuilding and cedar-mining hamlet

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: ship trunnels.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Built schooners on Dennis Creek and mined buried white cedar from the swamps; landing refuse follows the winding tidal creek.

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