In February 2002, the Foundation commissioned Dave Brown, Thane Harpole, and Tony Smith to undertake a Phase I survey of a 1.1-acre parcel known as the Parsonage Lot located south of the church and Carter Reception Center. The Foundation had purchased the lot in 2000, and an archaeological survey was recommended as part of the Foundation's inventory of cultural resources.
Brown, Harpole, and Smith excavated a total of 55 shovel test pits within the site. The results of these excavations proved promising. The boundaries of three sites previously identified by John Metz in 1999 were expanded, including Site I, where at least three brick kilns were believed to have been identified, and Site II, where archaeological evidence pointed to an eighteenth-century structure related to the church. Additional archaeological research on these two sites was recommended. Though this work also expanded the boundaries of Site III, its association as a twentieth-century trash deposit warranted no recommendations for further archaeological research. |
Archaeologist Thane Harpole screens a shovel test pit in his survey of the Parsonage Lot. |
