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Vandemere Bay River oyster landing

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: oyster-house crockery, shell midden glass.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Small Bay River port laid out after the Civil War that lived on oysters and truck-farm freight; shell piles and landing refuse mark the old wharves.

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