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Copano ghost port on Copano Bay

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: shellcrete rubble (observation).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Mexican-era landing and 1830s-40s port for Refugio colonists, abandoned by the 1880s; shellcrete ruins crumble along the bay bluff.

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