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A Revolutionary War-era boat is being rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan

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Over 600 pieces from the 50-foot ( 15-meter ) vessel are being painstakingly put back together at the New York State Museum .

Researchers believe the boat was a gunboat built in 1775 to defend Philadelphia .

It ended up apparently neglected along the Manhattan shore before ending up in a landfill around the 1790s .

Researchers still don't know all the places it traveled to or why it ended up.

By the 1790s , it was out of commission and then covered over as part of a project to expand Manhattan farther out into the Hudson River .

By that time, the mast and other parts of the Revolutionary War ship had apparently been stripped.

“It’s an important piece of history,” Lucas said.

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