CIVIL WAR ERA Medicine Bottle dug Brooklyn Navy Yard

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This is a Civil War era fancy medicine bottle from a private commercial dig at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Navy Yard has a great history dating back to the revolution and was decommissioned in 1966 and sold to private commercial interests. It is no longer government property and digs were once conducted at owners permission. Bottle is clear and measures 4 3/4 inches tall. Appears to be blown in mold with a faint closed pontil circle on the base that was probably made while finishing the lip. Tombstone shaped label area. Some ground staining. Minor chip on outside lip. Edge ridges are excellent. Nice bottle with great history. The ironclad Monitor was fitted Last picture is near the recovery area. Brooklyn Navy Yard The United States Navy Yard, New York - better known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard or the New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY) - is located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northeast of the Battery on the Brooklyn side of the East River in Wallabout Basin , a semicircular bend of the East River across from Corlear's Hook in Manhattan . The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2. Bounded by Navy Street , Flushing and Clinton Avenues, it covered over 200 acres (0.81 km²) at the height of its production of U.S. Navy warships. Navy Following the American Revolution, the waterfront site was used to build merchant vessels. Federal authorities purchased the old docks and forty acres of land for forty thousand dollars in 1801, and the property became an active U.S. Navy shipyard fives years later, in 1806. The offices, store-houses and barracks were constructed of handmade bricks, and the yard's oldest structure (located in Vinegar Hill), the 1807 federal style commandant's house, was designed by Charles Bulfinch, architect of the U.S. Capitol in Washington , D.C. . Many officers were housed in Admiral's Row. Military chain of command was strictly observed. During the Yard's construction of Robert Fulton's steam frigate, Fulton , launched in 1815, the year of Fulton 's death, the Navy Yard's chief officers were listed as follows: * Captain Commandant: Samuel Evans * Master Commandant: George W. Rodgers * Lieutenant of the Yard: Benjamin Cooper * Master of the Yard: Francis H. Ellison * Surgeon of the Yard & Marine Barracks: J.G.T. Hunt * Purser of the Navy Yard: George S. Wise, Jr. * Naval Storekeeper: John P. Decatur * Naval Constructor: John Floyd * Major commanding the Marine Corps: Richard Smith The nation's first ironclad ship, Monitor, was fitted with its revolutionary iron cladding at the nearby Continental Iron Works. By the American Civil War, the yard had expanded to employ about 6000 men. In 1890, the ill-fated Maine was launched from the Yard's ways. On the eve of World War II, the yard contained more than five miles (8 km) of paved streets, four dry docks ranging in length from 326 to 700 feet (99 to 213 meters), two steel shipways, and six pontoons and cylindrical floats for salvage work, barracks for marines, a power plant, a large radio station, and a railroad spur, as well as the expected foundries, machine shops, and warehouses. In 1937 the battleship North Carolina was laid down. In 1938, the yard employed about ten thousand men, of whom one-third were Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers. The battleship Iowa was completed in 1942. On January 12, 1953, test operations began on Antietam, which emerged in December 1952 from the Yard as America 's first angled-deck aircraft carrier. At its peak, during World War II, the yard employed 70,000 people, 24 hours a day. Unfortunately for its workers, the Brooklyn Navy Yard made extensive use of asbestos in the manufacturing and repairing of its ships during the twentieth century. While the federal government successfully resisted responsibility in court for the extensive and often mortal health problems that resulted in the following years, thousands of retired workers have successfully sued the pr... read more

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