We might also ask where is the "data" coming from. Is it from a
builders trench or from inside the foundation? Is one man's guard
house another man's "privy" if so why are there three of them next to
the public road in ye old photo? Who put the toponym "workers xxxxx"
on the map? You? The staff? The author of the map, perhaps redrafted?
If there's x footage of records in Washington, unindexed, still
reportedly "classified" how much can we know from an industry run from
offices 50 miles down river in NYC? Why is "the other" former foundry
owner the designer of the powder works outside of Atlanta, (designed
from Crystal Palace brochure) in the great upheaval, the "Civil War"
(anything but). Who were the people given alias from Great Britain,
their expertise supposedly impounded there, that worked in the foundry
now a "sea of brick" with waterworks running under it? Can archaeology
really answer any of these questions?

George Myers

Some musings on the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, NY, now part of
"Scenic Hudson, Inc," across Foundry Cove from Constitution Island, on
the east shore of the Hudson river, still owned by the West Point
Military Academy on the west shore. Part of an EPA remediation of
cadmium, once part of the Marathon Battery site, producer of batteries
for Nike missiles, and nearby the U.S. National Register Historic
District.