COLD SPRING, N.Y. The West Point Foundry

**Gypsy Heart** · Jul 21, 2006, 10:17 AM

COLD SPRING, N.Y. A team of archaeologists has been working with an upstate organization to uncover a 19th-century industrial site which produced some of the big guns that helped win the Civil War.

Michigan Technological University is into its fifth year of digging at the site of the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, in Putnam County across the Hudson River from the U-S Military Academy.

The 87-acre site is owned by Poughkeepsie-based Scenic Hudson, which hopes to reopen the site to the public next year.

The West Point Foundry produced cook stoves, steam engines, cannons and cannonballs for nearly 100 years before its closure in 1911.

During the Civil War, it made (m) millions of artillery shells and two-thousand cannons for the Union army.

Over five years of digging, the archaeologists have uncovered various artifacts and the foundry's old living quarters and blast furnace.

**Diggincoinz** · Jul 21, 2006, 11:55 AM

That's cool stuff! Did you come up with any pics of the site, before/after and the artifacts?

**Gypsy Heart** · Jul 21, 2006, 05:47 PM

http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yas...y/foundry.html

**gldhntr** · Jul 21, 2006, 05:50 PM

somewhere in all my papers i have an account of several related large caches buried in the near vicinity of the west point foundry...if not mistaken its on the property..........gldhntr