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Article: BRINGING TO LIFE A 'SLICE OF TIME' EXCAVATION TO BEGIN AT VERMONT FORT THAT IS LAST UNDISTURBED REVOLUTIONARY WAR SITE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 22, 1989
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Orwell, Vt. - It was here, on what is now a serene and woodsy
promontory over Lake Champlain, that a ragged Continental army in
1776 built a mountaintop fort and waited for the British to come.
While they waited and tended their cannon, they suffered,
complained, drank, froze, fell ill; hundreds died.
The story of Mount Independence, as the rebels named it, is a
little-known one. But this could change, as archeologists this
summer begin excavations here, at what they call the last major
Revolutionary War site that is relatively undisturbed.
"Here it is, a slice of time, one year, 10,000 men in tents
and a few structures. . .just waiting to be brought to life," said
David Starbuck, ...