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Fairport Harbor Grand River mouth port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1893 historic-map era

Lake Erie port at the Grand River mouth handling ore, salt and immigrant traffic from the 1830s; working waterfront fill and lakefront dumping through the early 1900s.

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