Archeology
In 1978, a survey of the upper Patuxent River using a proton procession magnetometer located the fleet. Further study of the wrecks, including one vessel dubbed the Turtle Shell Wreck', followed in 1979. The Turtle Shell was lying in the main river channel near Wayson's Corner, and covered by five feet of mud, the ship was well preserved, although it appeared the bow was torn off in an explosion.
When the new Route 4 Hills Bridge was built in 1990, remnants of Barney's ships were found buried more than five feet below the riverbed.
A replica of one of his gunboats today sits in a waterside park in Bladensburg, Maryland.
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“As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.”
—Michel Foucault (1926–1984)