Then and Now: Archeology at Fort Stanwix
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1970s Urban Renewal

During the 1970s urban renewal project, the buildings that were on the site of Fort Stanwix were torn down and some of the rubble used to fill in basements. Many of the objects in those buildings were still there when archeologists looked thirty years later.
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Appliances, such as these old washing machines, were mixed into the rubble and debris from the demolition of the buildings at the site. Other appliances included a hot water heater, a Coke Machine, and a few things that were too badly twisted to identify. Discarded appliances buried on the site in the 1970s.
A backhoe excavating at the Willett Center site, with red soil at the upper portion of the photo showing brick dust form the demolished hotel. The brick rubble was very distinctive when seen in the ground. The color of the broken bricks turned the soil red. The bricks came from the Stanwix Hall Hotel, which was four stories high and made of brick, and other buildings at the site. The red color in the picture shows where the bricks from the hotel were crushed and buried.
Construction debris from the 1970s also got thrown into the mix. These pieces of metal are from a gate used to block off the construction site. Twisted metal debris from the 1970s buried at the Willett Center site.
     

 

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