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keywords:history,philly,archaeology,philadelphia,museums description:Behind the scenes at the Museum of the American Revolution, opening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in early 2017. Making the Museum 1.5M ratings 277k ratings See, that’s what the app is perfect for. Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wannaWhew, what a year it has been. Looking forward to a completed museum building in 2016!
After this 40-foot beam was covered in hundreds of signatures and well-wishes, it was hauled into place on top of the new building. Watch its graceful landing, followed by a special message from the Museums CEO Michael Quinn!
See any familiar signatures on here? Thanks to everyone who signed their John Hancock to the beam at our Topping Off Ceremony!
From August-October 2014, archaeologists from John Milner Associates (JMA) explored the site where the Museum of the American Revolution will be built. Most of the excavation phase is over, but there are still areas of the site left to explore. Lead archaeologist Rebecca Yamin is back with a new discovery her team made this month:
The archaeologists returned to the field at the beginning of April to monitor the removal of a construction ramp at the corner of Third and Chestnut Streets. As is often the case, nothing showed up until the very last day when another brick shaftcalled Feature 50was uncovered.
The first fill we removed included artifactsmainly ceramic sherdsdating to the 18th century. Below that was a mound of night soil (human waste) that had practically nothing in it except a few beautiful, handwrought nails also from the 18th century.
The feature, a privy, was found on property that once belonged to William Hudson, a tanner and former mayor of Philadelphia, whosemansion faced Third Street and also opened onto Chestnut Street. We cant be sure the artifacts belonged to the Hudson family, though, since the property was subdivided into several lots along Third Street in the 1790s.
Work continues in JMAs laboratory, where they are mending artifacts recovered from four particularly rich shaft features: one dating to the turn of the 18th century, one to the 1730s, one to the 1770s, and another to the 1830s. Well let you know what they find!
Pictured above (from top): Archaeologists excavating and sifting soils from Feature 50, a privy found under the construction ramp, and 18th-century artifacts found in Feature 50.
Image Credits: John Milner Associates, Inc.
From August-October, archaeologists fromJohn Milner Associates(JMA) explored the site where theMuseum of the American Revolutionwill be built. The excavation phase is over, but the analysis has only just begun! Lead archaeologistRebecca Yaminis back with new discoveries being made in her groups lab:
Since finishing excavation on October 24th, we have been busy cleaning, organizing, and inventorying the artifacts in our West Chester laboratory. About 60,000 artifacts have been entered into a computer database and we are beginning the mending process. When possible, found fragments are mended together to form the vessels they used to becups, plates, glasses, flower pots, etc.
Our last field report announced the discovery of the Success to the Triphena punch bowl. Many more sherds have been found in the lab and when taped together they form an almost complete bowl.Weve also pieced together some beautiful redware plates made by Philadelphia potters who we will make every effort to identify. A surprise artifact that we didnt notice when it was covered with dirt in the field included a bottle seal bearing the initials S. M., probably for its owner, Sarah Merrick, who lived at No. 32 Carters Alley in 1791. (The punch bowl was found next door at No. 30.)
In addition to mending artifacts, another part of the analysis process is tracing the owners and occupants of the properties where the artifact-filled features (privies) were found. Fortunately, many primary documents with this information, including deeds and directories, are now online, but we will also be visiting the City Archives and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. So far, from deeds we have learned that the block was occupied by many different kinds of artisans. For instance, in the 1790s there was a shoemaker, a bookbinder, a printer, a carpenter, a paper manufacturer, a blacksmith, a stay maker, a tallow chandler, a coachmaker, a cutler, and a cordwainer on Carters Alley. A clerk in the Treasury department lived at No. 76 Chestnut Street in 1794, which would have been convenient to the First Bank of the United States located on the other side of Third Street. A shoemaker and cordwainer were at that address a few years earlier and a gilder was there in 1810. It will be interesting to see if any artifacts relating to these particular occupations turn up in the lab.
Once the artifacts are mended we will match them to their probable owners and address research questions that relate to domestic life in early Philadelphia and industrial activities that co-existed with private houses in this neighborhood. The site includes a material record of the development of the city in microcosm and we will trace the changes over time from the late 17th century up to the second decade of the 20th century.
Pictured above (from top) are two images of archaeology team members piecing together artifacts; a more complete look at the Success to the Triphena bowl from the inside and the outside; an assortment of sherds; and a beautiful example of Philadelphia redware.
Were looking forward to hearing more about the teams findings in the new year. Many thanks to Rebecca and her team for their hard work and to you for following along!
Image Credits:John Milner Associates, Inc.
Archaeology may be over, but construction has only just begun! To track our progress, we set up a time-lapse camera that documents our construction site every 15 minutes. Check it out for live updates!
For nearly three months, archaeologists fromJohn Milner Associates(JMA) have been exploring the site where theMuseum of the American Revolutionwill be built. Each weeklead archaeologistRebecca Yaminshares her teams discoveries. Today she recaps her teams last week of site work, and announces a special discovery!
Friday, October 24, was the last day archaeologists needed to be in the field until spring, when the ramp covering William Hudsons property at the corner of Chestnut and Third Streets will be lifted.The rest of the site has been excavated to depths below which any cultural remains would be expected.
It is both sad and exciting to finish an archaeological investigationsad because excavation, especially urban excavation, is so full of surprising finds that make every minute in the field interesting, and exciting because now we get to figure out what all those finds mean. Who did the artifacts belong to? What was life like on this block during the Revolutionary War? What was it like during the 19th century? What can we learn about the tanning industry, the printing industry, and button making from the physical remains?
In all, we excavated a well and twelve brick-lined privies, most of them brimming with artifacts. One of the largest assemblages of artifacts came from an 18th-century privy in the southeast corner of the site, located behind a house that would have faced Carters Alley. Among them was one of our most treasured findings: the pieces of an English delftware punch bowl.
When these sherds were pieced together in the lab, we were delighted to see a resplendent ship flying British flags with the words Success to the Triphena below. (Triphena is the name of the ship depicted.) We were the first people to lay eyes on this object since it was broken and discarded around the time of the American Revolution.
American colonists drank enormous quantities of alcoholic beverages, including beer, cider, wine, brandy, rum, gin, and whiskey. One particularly popular beverage during the era of the American Revolution was punch, which combined various ingredients like sugar, citrus juice, spices and liquor, and was commonly served in ceramic punch bowls like the Success to the Triphena bowl found on our site. (If youd like to try a classic punch, check out Ben Franklins recipe for Milk Punch here.)
During the 18th century, many of the punch bowls that were exported to the American colonies were produced by potters in Liverpool, England. The collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England includes an example that is a very close match to the Triphena bowl. (See above.) Such bowls were likely produced to commemorate the launch of a new ship or to mark a voyage.
Thanks to the digitization of 18th-century American and British newspapers, we have been able to piece together some fascinating details about the original Triphena. (Triphena is Greek for delicate or dainty). The December 1, 1763 edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette carried an advertisement for merchants Robert Lewis and Son, located on Front Street in Philadelphia, where they offered an assortment of goods just imported on the Triphena, Captain Smith, from Liverpool. It is certainly no coincidence that Captain Smiths travels on the Triphena over the next few years regularly carried him to Liverpool, the place where the punch bowl was made, as well as Philadelphia, Charleston, and the West Indies.
In addition to plying the Atlantic and Caribbean waters, the Triphena played an interesting role in the American colonial protest movement against the Stamp Act. In late 1765, Captain Smith carried a memorial from the merchants and traders of Philadelphia addressed to the merchants and manufacturers of Great Britain, asking them to pressure Parliament to repeal the odious act.
Like many of the items discovered on our site, the Success to the Triphena bowl is not simply an objectit is also a witness to and product of the rich and fascinating history of our corner of the world as a new nation was being formed. We look forward to making additional discoveries in the archaeology lab and sharing them with you in the coming months. Thank you for following this project!
Pictured above are fragments of the Success to the Triphena bowl found by our archaeologists.
Special thanks to the Museums Director of Collections, R. Scott Stephenson, for researching the history of the punch bowl.
Image Credit:John Milner Associates, Inc.
For nearly three months, archaeologists fromJohn Milner Associates(JMA) have been exploring the site where theMuseum of the American Revolutionwill be built. Each weeklead archaeologistRebecca Yaminshares her teams discoveries. As archaeology begins to wind down, she reveals what are likely to be some of her teams last findings for the season:
Were approaching the last week of archaeology until spring. When I left the field on Thursday, the other archaeologists were clearing button-making debris off a cellar floor that probably belonged to a wing of the Jayne Building. Among the debris were iron tools that may relate to Lippencotts innovative button manufacturing process and some mysterious chunks of white porcelainthough not the sanitary kind. Once that cellar floor is taken up there will be only one more cellar floor to explore before we wrap up for the winter.
When we return in the spring, well be digging under the ramp that trucks use to get in and out of the site. It covers one of the most potentially important properties in the project areathe lot that belonged to William Hudson and his descendants. The house, described as a mansion in the documentary record, stood at the corner of Third and Chestnut Streets. It had a view of the Delaware River from a garden that sloped southeast towards Dock Creek, and there were stables and servants quarters in the rear of the court-yard. We are hoping that remnants of them have survived later construction.
As expected, the privy found last week in the southwest corner of the site contained artifacts dating to the second half of the 19th century. Fragments of embossed medicine bottles and a sweet little redware dish that may have been used for mixing potions were among them, but best of all was a complete pewter spoon. Other artifacts found include the heavy plain white ironstone ceramics that were popular in the late 19th century and the leather sole of a shoe.
Pictured above is the spoon, the shoe sole, and the button factory machine part found on site.
Image Credit:John Milner Associates, Inc.
For nearly three months, archaeologists fromJohn Milner Associates(JMA) have been exploring the site where theMuseum of the American Revolutionwill be built. Each weeklead archaeologistRebecca Yaminshares her teams discoveries. Today she reveals some unexpected findings:
Just as we thought there was nothing left to find, another brick-lined shaft showed up in the southwestern corner of the site. The artifacts coming out of it appear to be from the second half of the 19th century, but once we get deeper we will know more.
At the beginning of the week we completed the excavation of two nearby features: a small diameter circular shaft and an incomplete brick circle. The incomplete circle was very shallow and didnt yield much more than cinders, but the complete shaft was about six feet deep and contained late 19th-century artifacts, including lots of printers type.
The type is particularly interesting because it represents a later technological development in the industry than was found earlier in the project at Carters Alley. One aspect of our analysis will focus on the evolution of the printing industry, which was very significant in Philadelphia.
The northern half of the site is now being cleared and we are recording foundation walls as they are exposed. The foundations belong to buildings that once lined Chestnut Street. Many of the 19th-century buildings along the street front had basements plus sub-basements and it is unlikely that any backyard features from the 18th century survived beneath them, but you never know until you look under the basement floors. Time will tell!
Pictured above is a handful of the printers type found on site. Also pictured (below) is one of the building foundations described by Dr. Yamin.
Every Thursday between 10am-2pm the archaeologists are available to take your questions in person from the steps of theFirst Bank of the United States, which isacross the street from the construction site. Not local? You can submit archaeology questions toeditor@amrevmuseum.organd we will answer them in a future post.
Image Credit:John Milner Associates, Inc.
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