Part One Exploration: The Ground Yields Many Things
By John L. Cotter
Supervising Archeologist, Colonial National Historical Park
“As in the arts and sciences the first invention is of more consequence than all the improvements afterward, so in kingdoms, the first foundation, or plantation, is of more noble dignity and merit than all that followeth.”
—Lord Bacon
In the summer of 1934 a group of archeologists set to work to...
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