12/6/2023 0 Comments Wood used in ship constructionIn 2010, excavators in New York's Lower Manhattan discovered buried deep in the ground the remains of a wooden ship and-according to a new study-that ship was built using timber that had been harvested from old-growth forests in southeastern Pennsylvania around 1773. And the key to this discovery lies with tree rings. From the ruins of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 sprouts an amazing link to Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia.
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