is this piece of wood here which we a real this is actually fort howard piece of flooring to this islding, 1833, and from fort howard soldiers at the time. that was encapsulated inside a wall or covered by a wall that was erected later in the building's history. so the construction of that wall actually preserved that piece of flooring. the flooring that you see next to it is actually a replica flooringthat replaced that we took out that was really in bad condition and that was .ot from the fort howard period usually we can determine if the show that you nailed a piece of wood into timber. when we remove that piece of wood and there's no other holes in that timber below, indications like that will tell us that is an original piece. you really have to be observant when you are removing or making alterations of a structure to get to the original material. you really don't want to miss anything. you have to question everything you see. little details can tell you a lot, if there is a little speck ,f paint on a piece of lath that might tell you there had been a piece of trim there with that c