18th-century ship found at trade center site

July 16, 2010

so while digging at the world trade center site they found a ship under where one of the buildings stood. looks like the towers aren’t the only thing that laid there to rest. c r e e p y.

On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.

Obviously, these were more than just remnants of the wooden cribbing used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to extend the shoreline of Manhattan Island ever farther into the Hudson River. (Lower Manhattan real estate was a precious commodity even then.)

there are a bunch of pictures – read the story here

happy friday internets.