Artifacts from the multi-component, multi-site and 1993 final field reports for the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies, (involving historical and underwater archaeology) and catalogue were returned to Cold Spring, NY and placed in proper storage. Scenic Hudson currently owns the site which is a field school in industrial archaeology run by Michigan Technological University, publishers of the Society for Industrial Archeology's award winning journal. To quote "the first five locomotives in America were made there" along with sugar production equipment used in Puerto Rico and other difficult to document events (incendiary development, classified rifled cannon production, anything made with iron made there including "tinned roof," boilers, iron columns, the "Swamp Angel" used to bombard Charleston, South Carolina in 1863, over 1 million artillery shells, 30,000 caissons, the "dynamite gun," Jules Verne's "guncotton" buried cannon fired in "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865), etc. It's thought he visited it, as did Abraham Lincoln to see 200 and 300 lb firings) before the Bessemer iron production developments put it out of business though I recall Thomas Edison lost his shirt trying to get iron out of the ground again nearby using electro-magnetism.
The site was cleaned up from cadmium dumped in the Foundry Cove which forms with the US West Point Military Academy holding of Constitution Island.
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