As an archaeologist, I get to do some pretty cool things: I get to excavate sites and analyze artifacts that most people haven’t touched or seen in over a century (or more), I get to write about these discoveries and interact with colleagues and the public about this data.

One great pleasure that I get working at the Ohio Historical Society (OHS) is interacting with local historical societies, the general public and with various agencies.  I had the chance to do all three recently at the Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio  for an Ohio Department of Tranportation (ODOT) project.  The project and its results are detailed in the link below:

http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2013/05/odot-project-near-us-grant-birthplace_21.html

With the discovery of the pipes, saggers and medicine bottle fragment and the historic information that we at OHS were able to recover about the medicine bottle, I have been thinking about doing a paper on some of the pipes and pipe factories that helped influence this Point Pleasant during an interesting time in American history. 

Stay tuned for more discoveries!