The boat will be fully removed from the mud, but where it and the other artifacts will go is unclear.
During this phase of the construction project, the usually busy intersection of King Street and A1A is closed to traffic. With this discovery, you’d think the intersection will be closed even longer. However, the FDOT Spokesman Hampton Ray said that won't be the case because the agency already built time into the schedule just in case something like this happened.
"This is part of St. Augustine that has been under the surface for a long time and we haven’t seen it," Pawn said."It's because that’s something every person has and that we’ve found something like that, it helps us remember these are people who lived here," Pawn said. Delgado painted the picture of what that spot along the Matanzas River was like when that fishing boat was abandoned.
"If we were back in the 19th century, you would have an open waterfront with sailing craft and steamboats. People would be getting off the boats and going to the market here. It was an active waterfront," said Delgado."And which circumstances change, but St. Augustine is still here, as it has been for hundreds of years."
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