This reference is from memory of quickly reading through the newspaper
archives at the West Point Foundry School Museum, where they were
available next to the study commissioned by Brill and Associates, Inc.
I think written by Edward Rutsch, et al. That study was divided into
Pre-Classic, Classic and Post Classic divisions of history of the West
Point Foundry. There is also a large unlabeled aerial "oblique"
photograph from about 1920's that shows a large "crater" on the east
side of the stone dike that once connected Constitution Island with
the West Point Foundry, which I sometimes think, given the clandestine
nature of ironworks as reported in the study, may have been a
"workers" housing area, or other ancillary facilities. One old map a
researcher found had a small iron mine over there too, predating
perhaps recorded US government interest. I have a blog citation about
the West Point Foundry EPA remediation here: March 5, 2005: "NIKE
batteries (not included) and rifled "musket" cannons"
http://georgejmyersjr.blogspot.com/ which has a good USGS high
altitude photograph showing the earthen dam built to haul the marsh
out on railroad cars.



On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:56:12 -0500, George Myers
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> About Cold Spring, NY (not to be confused with Cold Spring Harbor, NY,
> once a whaling town, site of world renowned biology lab today, on Long
> Island).
>
> In:     OUR TOWNS
> "New vs. Old, This Time With a River"
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/nyregion/23towns.html
>
> I was part of an archaeological investigation of the West Point
> Foundry Cove for EPA remediation of cadmium from batteries for Nike
> missiles for Grossman and Associates. We worked with Tidewater to
> side-scan sonar and magnetometer survey the riverfront and the cove,
> and with Anthony Tripp of Texas A&M to magnetometer survey the fast
> land, which was from 1890's to 1913 a Chicago Bridge and Steel, Co.,
> rail yard for building bridges in its huge "Bridge Shop" (probably
> lots of lead paint). The location of the prototype of the "Swamp
> Angel" was found, said on the web here to be an important "invention"
> of the American Civil War.
>
> George Myers
>