From the March 8, 2012, Times-Union.
The USS Monitor wreck site is the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, a one-mile in diameter park created Jan. 30, 1975, shortly after the ship's site was discovered.
Fifteen percent of the Monitor is at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virgina, and the remaining 85% in the ocean. The turret and other parts were rescued as the rest is in too poor of a shape to be removed, unfortunately.
The iron plates of the ship were made in South Troy, New York.
Still Serving her Nation. --Old B-Runner
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