In 1995, Southern Oceans Archaeological Research, Inc. (SOAR) surveyed the waters around St. Augustine with a magnetometer to detect large targets. No ground truth, or on-site, testing was done, however. In 1996 SOAR, received a grant from the Florida Department of State, State Historic Preservation Board to re-survey and dive on the larger targets found in the 1995 survey. It was during this process that the Industry site was discovered. The Industry site consists of two distinct areas, the “Steamship Site” and the “Tube Site.” The Steamship Site contains propulsion machinery from an 18th century steamship. The Tube Site includes 8 gun tubes, their concretions, and several anchors discovered in 1995. As a result of this work, the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum funded three successive field seasons to investigate this site. Further magnetometer surveys and some ground truth tests were done in 1997 in preparation for these investigations.

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