Mount Independence Revolutionary War Artifacts--How We Know about Artifacts

The Artifacts of Mount Independence and the Stories They Tell: A series of brief explorations of Revolutionary War artifacts from Mount Independence on Lake Champlain in Orwell, Vermont. Michael Blakeslee, long-time Revolutionary War reenactor and a Vermont State Historic Sites site interpreter, takes a look at some of the artifacts found in archaeological investigations over the years at Mount Independence and discusses how they are identified. How do we know what they are? Presented by the Mount Independence State Historic Site, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, as part of the site's collection stewardship project funded by a grant from the National Park Service American Battlefield Projection Program.