Recently, a supposed time capsule from 1795, burried by the one and only Paul Revere has been found in the Massachusetts State House in Boston. This item was discovered during a water leakage problem in the building. There has been rumors about a Revere artifact somewhere in the building but it was unknown to be in the cornerstone. In charge of recovering this item was Pamela Hatchfield, head of object conservation at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. After debating on whether or not to remove the object, it was decided to remove it. The process took hours to chip into the stone to carefully preserve the box as much as possible. What is inside the box is still unknown and members of the museum are debating whether or not is should be opened and then returned to a stone like keeping or not.
This discovery has the possibility to reveal new information from this time period that could further help us understand our history. For now, we are left to speculation about the contents of the box. If this was discovered in the historic Boston, what other sorts of secrets could the historic cities of America be hiding? Maybe we only have a small idea of what happened in the past and there is so much that we haven't discovered yet.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/11/us/boston-time-capsule-paul-revere-sam-adams/index.html?hpt=us_c2
That's really cool and I would think it would help us have just a bit more information on that time period.
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