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  • The discovery of a 300-year-old ship at a construction site has archaeologists ecstatic

    01/06/2016 5:01:29 PM PST · by Tennessee Nana · 30 replies
    WashingtonPost ^ | January 6, 2016 | Patricia Sullivan
    A large, heavy ship, scuttled between 1775 and 1798, is being dug out of its damp grave at the site of a new hotel construction project in Old Town Alexandria. Archaeologists found the partial hull of a ship at 220 S. Union Street, part of the city's major redevelopment of the Potomac River waterfront. It's on the same one-block site where workers two months ago discovered a 1755 foundation from a warehouse that is believed to have been the city's first public building.