Senior archaeologist Nick Bon-Harper with Rivanna Archaeological Services and Jeff Werner, Charlottesville’s historic preservation and design planner, stand in what was Swan Tavern’s yard.
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Senior archaeologist Nick Bon-Harper with Rivanna Archaeological Services and Jeff Werner, Charlottesville’s historic preservation and design planner, stand near what was the Swan Tavern’s likely midden.
In what’s now downtown Charlottesville, the backyard of one of Albemarle County’s earliest major buildings is producing hundreds of artifacts as archaeologists race against construction schedules to document the site of the Swan Tavern, which stood by Court Square from about 1773 to 1832.
As construction negotiations for a new $37 million courthouse building dragged on during the winter, archaeologists digging up the yard of the…
Senior archaeologist Nick Bon-Harper with Rivanna Archaeological Services and Jeff Werner, Charlottesville’s historic preservation and design planner, stand in what was Swan Tavern’s yard.
Senior archaeologist Nick Bon-Harper with Rivanna Archaeological Services and Jeff Werner, Charlottesville’s historic preservation and design planner, stand near what was the Swan Tavern’s likely midden.
