Anchors, bocce balls among objects found during Gowanus Canal dredging
The Gowanus Canal cleanup is well underway and community members and archaeologists were excited to see what remnants of history emerged from the federal Superfund site’s sludge, Bklyner reported.
Among the objects found so far during the pilot dredging project at the Fourth Street Turning Basin were an anchor from as early as the mid-nineteenth century, a dredging bucket, part of a gantry truck and other rusted remnants of the neighborhood’s industrial past.
What wasn’t found were coveted artifacts that link the neighborhood to America’s history, such as the Battle of Brooklyn, one of the largest battles of the revolutionary war.