Eastern Seaboard, U.S. (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lesley Haines. Hannah Fleming. Laurie King. Molly McGath.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In many ways, USS Monitor, the first iron vessel built by the Union during the American Civil War and commissioned in 1862, was the first mass-produced ship; component parts were bought straight off showroom floors, or were built at various industrial facilities throughout the U.S. Northeast. This led to varied rubber gaskets being used, potentially interchangeably, in different contexts....