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WALLS UNCOVERED; IS A NOTABLE FINDillJPl'fTSliUKCiU.—The Y/slls et hls-IcrCc old Fort Pill, fcuilt by the Exit'Jsh in 1YM, have tfen frozen and preserved since French ur.d IxxLian war days, r.alional park service officials have fahn.d after an Inspection olt; t*it diggings litre.Dig'S if under streets r.d railroad yards in the busy 'Tolnt” area of Frftshurch, W-A workers have.ua* Cbcthcd. portions of the -Vflll of l« old br.sUcn that onec was the 'Gateway to the West,” In accordnr.co with pirns of the Pcinl park cdjt.-uiUsioii 1o eventually turn the jilbc inLo n park.The Lr.dir.gs were *xarMrr*rt by Dr. A. R. Kelly, chief of the arch«- |t dogical division of th- nations! park e servlet, r.rri Dr. T. Borxesseo, also of the N PS. expert on Eighteenth century fnrtiricftlior.s, who helped Xt' store the battler'elds at York town and Fort Niagara.,Ji am tVi prised ar.d pleased to sec that the walls arc in uch £ ic* m^rhaL'le stale of pir.i-crkai.iuio,-'*Dr. Kelly said. 1? is remarkable that the Point- has been so coza-plcte'y covered over with szvezat feet of fUl thal lias frozen ccr.ditioas ar.d preserved 1hcm.Dr. Kelly said te considered the fir.dingj highly s.^£’^lficDnl,, ar.din.inir-he*kQUthat an. Cx.spectiuh of Ifce sections uncovered !rdlcati?s thut practically the entire fort can. te excavated,' Tee wall Is-the real gcods, he declared. 'Tils ptaclicatly as gcofl as when laid down by the British lSodd years ago.”in The officials will xeport their hr.d-rtallags to the oolksnal park service, which has been asked to sponsor a national park c.1 the Point, where the Allegheny and Mcr.ongaheta merge to farm the Ohio river.it CL
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Cedar Rapids Tribune
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 09, 1942
Page 7
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