2010-12-07

Historic World Trade Center Artifacts on Display Downtown - DNAinfo.com

Historic World Trade Center Artifacts on Display Downtown - DNAinfo.com

LOWER MANHATTAN — A downtown exhibit of artifacts from the World Trade Center site — some of which have buried for over 400 years — opened on Tuesday at the India House in Lower Manhattan.

A Dutch flag recovered from the 9/11 attacks that was discovered in the watery mess in the basement by rescue workers. (DNAinfo/ Josh Williams)

The anchor on display was discovered only feet from where the keel was found, but years later. It was first unearthed during the building of the World Trade Center in 1967, but it sat in the basement of the Twin Towers until its rediscovery decades later.

The exhibit also includes modern day artifacts including scaled models of the USS New York made from recovered World Trade Center iron.

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