“I Would Have a Brew House”

Posted by Clare Cavicchi on May 6, 2024 in | Comments Off on “I Would Have a Brew House” Virtually from its founding, settlers and visitors to the Philadelphia area perceived possibilities for a thriving brewing industry there. Thomas Budd, in 1685, wrote, “I do not question but that we might make good strong sound Beer, Ale and Rum, that would keep well to Barbadoes . . . I question not but if it be well brewed in a seasonable time of the Year, and put up in good Casks, but...
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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love by Rebecca Yamin

Posted by Janet Johnson on Mar 29, 2024 in | Comments Off on Digging in the City of Brotherly Love by Rebecca Yamin Digging in the City of Brotherly Love Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology Second Edition by Rebecca Yamin Temple University Press, 320 pp., paperback $35 Digging in the City of Brotherly Love is a captivating exploration of Philadelphia’s rich historic past through the eyes of an exceptional historical archaeologist. The race against development and the destruction of hidden stories are focal...
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Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Colonial Fort Halifax

Posted by Joe Baker on Mar 17, 2023 in | Comments Off on Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Colonial Fort Halifax As the fleet of bateaux slipped into the lee of what would come to be called Clemson Island and Lingle Island along the east shore of the mile-wide Susquehanna River, the smoke from the Armstrong family’s compound would have been visible to the men in the boats, as would the distinctive hook-shaped mouth of the creek that enters the river there. Aboard the 20-odd bateaux and several dugout...
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Editor’s Letter

Posted by Kyle Weaver on Mar 17, 2023 in | Comments Off on Editor’s Letter This April 3 marks the 75th anniversary of President Harry S. Truman’s signing of the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan. Pennsylvania native and former Army chief of staff George C. Marshall, Truman’s secretary of state, first articulated the need to rehabilitate the economic structure of Europe following the devastation of World War II in a speech at Harvard...
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Community Initiative Awards for 2021

Posted by Shelby Splain on Sep 12, 2022 in | Comments Off on Community Initiative Awards for 2021 The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has announced the winners of its Community Initiative Awards to recognize accomplishments made in 2021. These awards acknowledge the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals whose work is advancing and expanding the definition of historic preservation in Pennsylvania. The awards...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2022

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Mar 14, 2022 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Spring 2022 Topics in the Spring 2022 Newsletter: PHMC Curators Highlight Prized Objects from Collections Robert Hill on John W. Geary’s Civil War Corps Badge Janet Johnson on Malkin Sunface Plate PHF Welcomes New Board Members   2022-spring-PHF-newsletter...
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Archaeology at Joanna Furnace

Posted by Katherine Peresolak on Mar 14, 2022 in | Comments Off on Archaeology at Joanna Furnace When did you first know what you wanted to do when you grew up? My plans varied in childhood, but by my early teens I knew that I loved past cultures and old items. By high school, I was considering Egyptology or Romanology and longed to visit ancient cities with thousands of years of history that I was reading about in Archaeology magazine, books and my Latin class. A visit to one of the fall...
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From the Executive Director

Posted by Andrea Lowery on Nov 29, 2021 in | Comments Off on From the Executive Director Last weekend at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, I met a member of the Delaware Tribe (the Lenape). He grew up in Oklahoma, where his tribe is located today, and this was his first visit to Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to Harrisburg, he had visited the Delaware Water Gap. I was captivated as he talked about seeing the Delaware River for the first time. The river looms large in Lenape history,...
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The Source: Native American Quarries in Pennsylvania

Posted by Joe Baker on Aug 23, 2021 in | Comments Off on The Source: Native American Quarries in Pennsylvania Sitting in a folding chair in front of an informational table at the annual Danville Heritage Festival, PennDOT archaeologist Susanne Haney considers an inch-and-a-half-thick, dinner-platesized fragment of metarhyolite. Susanne is one of the most accomplished flintknappers I know. Flintknapping is the prehistoric art of producing stone tools by shaping various kinds of suitable rock with stone...
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Susquehannock Village at Lemoyne

Posted by Bryan Van Sweden on Aug 13, 2021 in | Comments Off on Susquehannock Village at Lemoyne Around 1610 a group of Susquehannocks, an Iroquoian-speaking Native American tribe, established a village perched on a bluff overlooking the Susquehanna River in what is today Lemoyne, Cumberland County. Fast forward to 2007 when archaeologists began excavating that site in advance of a proposed railroad connector project. There they uncovered evidence of the village, including a wooden...
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