Artifacts from the multi-component, multi-site and 1993 final field
reports for the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies,
(involving historical and underwater archaeology) and catalogue were
returned to Cold Spring, NY and placed in proper storage. Scenic
Hudson currently owns the site which is a field school in industrial
archaeology run by Michigan Technological University, publishers of
the Society for Industrial Archaeology's award winning journal. To
quote "the first five locomotives in America were made there" along
with sugar production equipment used in Puerto Rico and other
difficult to document events (incendiary development, rifled cannon
production still classified, anything made with iron made there
including "tinned roof" boilers, iron columns, "dynamite gun" the
"Swamp Angel" used to bombard Charleston, South Carolina in 1863,
etc.) before the Bessemer iron production developments put it out of
business though I thought I recall Thomas Edison lost his shirt trying
to get iron out of the ground again nearby using electro-magnetism.
The site was cleaned up from cadmium dumped in the Foundry Cove which
forms with the US West Point Military Academy holding of Constitution
Island.
On 11/13/06, George Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> When: Saturday, Nov. 18 1 to 5 p.m.
> Where: Cold Spring Village Garage, 49 Fair St.
>
> See artifacts and photographs of the archaeological excavations on
> display. Light refreshments; tour of the West Point Foundry Preserve
> at 2 p.m.
>
> More info: Contact Elizabeth Norris, [log in to unmask] 917 648 1201
>
> Sponsored by: The Village of Cold Spring, Scenic Hudson and Putnam
> County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum, This event is part
> of Putnam County History Days.
>
> The West Point Foundry Collection contains artifacts unearthed from
> the West Point Foundry site as part of the Marathon Battery Superfund
> Cleanup.
>
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