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Reedville menhaden factory shoreline
Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: factory crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
1870s menhaden fishing capital on Cockrell Creek whose fish factories and captains row dumped refuse along the creek edges; once claimed among the richest towns per capita in the US.
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