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A Shape in
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Digging into the Wreck
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Ship Look Like?
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Time Line
| 1830s |
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The
schooner sails the Great Lakes and is wrecked along the Lake
Michigan shore near Naubinway, Michigan. |
| 1849 |
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Surveyor
William
Ives reports seeing a wrecked schooner at the Millecoquins River
site. |
| April
1990 |
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Nine-year-old
David Head finds the wrecked schooner partially uncovered in the
sand. |
| 1991 |
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Archaeologists
and archaeology students from East
Carolina University's Program in Maritime History and Underwater
Research excavate the schooner site for the first
time. They work for ten days. |
| 1994 |
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A
five-person crew from East Carolina University excavates the schooner
site for the second time. |
| 2001-2002 |
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The
Michigan Historical Museum presents the exhibit: Schooner in the Sand:
Unlocking the Secrets of a Great Lakes Shipwreck. |
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