As North Carolina crew workers picked away at a 75-foot Confederate monument on the Capitol grounds in Raleigh — using a crane to lift it piece by piece — they found something else underneath.
As they removed the remainder of the monument’s base, they discovered a rusted metal time capsule that was buried beneath the cornerstone of the Confederate Soldiers Monument on Union Square in 1894.
More than 125 years later, archaeologists and conservators from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources cracked open the weathered capsule with a hammer and sorted through its muddy contents.
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