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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1987
Page
5
Forecasters call for highs near 90 with lows in the mid sixties and a 30 percent chance of thundershowers. Friday through Sunday stay sunny and warm with similar temperatures, while mountain and Midlands areas expect scattered storms and mild winds.
Florida-based explorer E. Lee Spence, president of Shipwreck Consultants, targets the 1857 Central America wreck two days from Havana where about 200 people survived and about 4 tons of gold sank. He values the cargo at roughly 500 million today and cites past finds of the Hunley and Housatonic as proof of his search record.
State archaeologists sift tons of sand at a 58 acre Folly Beach tract to recover remains of Union soldiers likely buried during the Charleston siege. Dozens of bones and a pipe bowl are found as road work stops temporarily while digging continues elsewhere on the site.
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