Eileen Hannay, left, the manager of the Rogers Island Visitor Center, shows part of a cellar to visitors on Aug. 18, 2006, in Fort Edward, N.Y. A five-year-long archaeological project has unearthed the 250-year-old site of a merchant's establishment that sold wine, rum, tobacco and other goods to the thousands of soldiers who passed through this region during the French and Indian War, when Fort Edward was the largest British military post in North America. (AP Photo/ Jim McKnight )
To: NormsRevenge
People bought things in the 1800's?!? The heck you say!
And here I always thought that they were lying to me at Williamsburg.
(/sarcasm)
2 posted on
10/08/2006 8:00:31 AM PDT by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: NormsRevenge
Who gets to keep all the finds? The owner of the property where it was found, or the archeologist and his students?
4 posted on
10/08/2006 8:09:31 AM PDT by
Duke Phelan
(Practice makes perfect, but nobody is perfect, so why practice?)
To: NormsRevenge
Archeologists were surprised to find that one of the items, a package of aspirin, bore a price tag of 76p, the equivalent of nearly $10 in today's currency. They also found part of a broken sign that said "Thank thee. Come again."
5 posted on
10/08/2006 8:16:31 AM PDT by
IronJack
To: NormsRevenge
Neat! Thanks for posting this.
8 posted on
10/08/2006 8:48:35 AM PDT by
syriacus
(Pelosi, December 18, 1998, Statement in Opposition to the Articles of Impeachment)
To: Pharmboy
I think you have a ping list that might find this interesting. (If I'm mistaken, please accept my apology!)
9 posted on
10/08/2006 10:47:51 AM PDT by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
To: NormsRevenge
10 posted on
10/08/2006 11:08:53 AM PDT by
Alex1977
To: NormsRevenge
With the permission of military officials, sutlers set up shop near a fort's gates, taking advantage of the isolated location to do a brisk trade with off-duty soldiers and officers. They're still around today, you'll see them just across the border from military bases.
12 posted on
10/08/2006 5:20:37 PM PDT by
COBOL2Java
(Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
To: NormsRevenge
Neat.
I'll have two slurpees.
14 posted on
10/08/2006 6:16:45 PM PDT by
blam
To: NormsRevenge
The first white settlement here was established...And it's been downhill ever since.
16 posted on
10/08/2006 6:34:49 PM PDT by
Libloather
(*Bubba & *Hillary - hardly innocent until proven completely guilty...)
To: NormsRevenge
That part of the country is loaded with history. Didn't the Dutch originally land near Albany in 1620 or so?
Wish I had one percent of the antiques (they call it junk) stored in the barns back there!!!
21 posted on
10/08/2006 7:47:56 PM PDT by
djf
(There is no such thing as "moderate muslims". They are all "silent supporters!!")
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