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Workers digging at the World Trade Center site found a mystery boat. Now they’re rebuilding it![]() A remarkable piece of American history, a Revolutionary War-era boat, is slowly being reassembled at the New York State Museum, 15 years after its improbable discovery beneath Manhattan's World Trade Center site. Workers excavating the site stumbled upon the sodden timbers of the 50-foot vessel, which had lain buried for over two centuries, a relic from the nation's formative years. After years submerged and centuries underground, the boat is now being transformed into a museum exhibit. More than 600 pieces of the vessel are undergoing painstaking reconstruction at the museum. Research assistants and volunteers have spent weeks meticulously cleaning the timbers with picks and brushes, arraying them like giant puzzle pieces on the museum floor before the reassembly process could even begin. Believed to be a gunboat constructed in 1775 to defend Philadelphia, the vessel's full history remains shrouded in mystery. Researchers are still piecing together its travels and the reasons for its apparent abandonment along the Manhattan shore, before it ultimately became part of a landfill around the 1790s. “The public can come and contemplate the mysteries around this ship,” said Michael Lucas, the museum’s curator of historical archaeology. “Because like anything from the past, we have pieces of information. We don’t have the whole story.” From landfill to museum piece The rebuilding caps
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