Wuhu’s old street, an open port and its shops
Museum-held boundary stones turn the story of Wuhu’s treaty-port era from an abstract date into marks placed on a city’s ground.
Wuhu Old Street
Museum-held boundary stones preserve a material clue to the city’s treaty-port past.
Read Wuhu’s old commercial quarter through the survey marks and historic traces left after the port opened in 1876.
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Wuhu’s Former Customhouse, viewed from the southwest; photograph by 猫猫的日记本, 12 May 2012. This port-city landmark provides context for the treaty-port story; it is not one of the four boundary stones discussed in the article.猫猫的日记本 · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ The saved file is the standard 1280px Wikimedia thumbnail (1280×960), not the 4320×3240 upstream original. The file page credits 猫猫的日记本 and states CC BY-SA 3.0. No added watermark or overlay is visible in the saved image.