It was found that the timber used to construct the ship originated in Philadelphia around the year 1773.How, then, did a massive wooden ship get up smack dab in the midst of the metropolis?
In fact, the World Trade Center’s current location in Manhattan was formerly in the Hudson River.The cause of the ship’s sinking remains a mystery to researchers.
The ship was ultimately covered by rubbish and other landfill debris as the western coastline of Manhattan shifted westward due to New York’s growth and expansion.
Molly McDonald, an archaeologist, told CNN: “It’s such an intense site already based on its recent history, so to be in
the midst of this urban, modern, very fraught location, and then to be sitting on what was a river bottom, with clams and fish,
