Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Summer 2022

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 13, 2022 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Summer 2022 Topics in the Summer 2022 Newsletter: PHMC Curators Highlight Objects from Collections Rachel Yerger on Sugar Tongs from Cornwall Iron Furnace Jennifer Royer on the Undertaker’s Sleigh at Landis Valley PHF Announces New Board Members   PHF-newsletter...
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Mystery of the Monongahela Culture: Archaeology at Foley Farm

Posted by James Herbstritt on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Mystery of the Monongahela Culture: Archaeology at Foley Farm In 1939, anthropologist Mary Butler identified and formally named the Monongahela Woodland Culture, a prehistoric Indian way of life centered in the Monongahela Valley of south­western Pennsylvania, west­ern Maryland and parts of northern West Virginia. Dr. Butler’s reasons for naming this prehistoric Indian culture were, in part, based on ar­chaeological investigations sponsored by the...
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