Gold Rush-Era Ship Remains Discovered in San Fran

I love stories like this (LiveScience).

The ship's decaying bow peeked through mounds of earth as workers under the direction of an archaeologist brushed away generations of dirt from its aging timbers. A dig crew unearthed the first portions of the ship last week as they carved away dirt to lay the foundation for a 650-unit condominium development.

"This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile,'' said James Allan, an archaeologist with Williams Self Associates overseeing the removal and cataloging of the ship's remains.
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Allan said the ship remains do not have anything of value in it, other than history.

The ship was likely abandoned as Gold Rush fever overtook the region in the mid-1800s. In the 1850s, as many as 600 ships were abandoned in San Francisco's harbor, burned or simply junked by owners who switched their focus to mining the rich gold veins in the state's interior, according to Wolfgang Schubert, who gives historical walking tours of the San Francisco's waterfront for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Good stuff. Read the whole thing (it's short, I promise, and I gave you most of it anyway.)