Delaware Valley (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard F. Veit.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the summer of 1948, farmer Alfred Leone's melon patch yielded a most unusual crop, a treasure trove of colonial artifacts. Dredging the Delaware Ship channel to Philadelphia had opened the hull of a sunken ship and dredge spoil full of artifacts spewed across Leone's fields. Antiquarians and local historians descended on the site where...