18th Century Ship Used as Landfill Under World Trade Center

18th Century Ship Used as Landfill Under World Trade Center The crew working on the World Trade Center site unearthed a great discovery on Tuesday. They found a 18th century ship that was evidently used with other rubbish to fill in the land to extend lower Manhattan into the Hudson River. "That area was filled in between the 1790's and 1830's so we know that the ship was sunk down there as part of the landfill around that time," explained archaeologist Elizabeth Meade. backhoe loader