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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Boston Is Digging Up What Could Be The Oldest Unopened Time Capsule Ever

Paul Revere


Wikimedia Commons Crews are working to unearth a time capsule that historians think is hidden in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House, WBZ radio reports.
The time capsule is said to have been buried by Paul Revere and Sam Adams in 1795, WBZ and the State House News Service report, based on records  detailing a ceremony when the capsule was buried. The time capsule contains old coins and other period stuff.
If true, this would be by far the oldest unopened time capsule on record, leaving famous ones like the 1939 Westinghouse time capsule far behind.
Workers trying to figure out the source of a water leak found the location of the capsule, the State House News Service reports.
The capsule has been unearthed once before, in 1855 while repairs were being made to the State House. It was then put back in its place and left there, the State House News Service notes.
This wouldn't be the first time an old time capsule was found in Boston.
Earlier this year, crews doing restoration work in the old, original State House ( different house), which is now a historical museum, found a time capsule from 1901 hidden beneath statues of a lion and a unicorn. The capsule contained letters, photographs, and newspaper articles in mint condition, according to NECN.
Back in the 18th century, the 'old' State House was "the center of Boston ’s civic life" and "the scene of some of the most dramatic chapters in the lead-up to the American Revolution,"

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