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Images illustrating the installation, utilization, and evolution, 2006-2010 of a dewatering system at the site of Fort St. Joseph to lower the ground water table sufficiently to allow for excavation.
Exploring the Impacts of Dewatering a Colonial Fort (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Materials", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. To 'preserve the past for the future,' it is necessary to examine the preservation methods employed on artifacts in collections as well as the methods used to excavate archaeological sites. Investigations at Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post, have led to the recovery of more...
The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project is a collaboration between Western Michigan University and the City of Niles, MI to investigate, interpret, and preserve the physical remains of the site of Fort St. Joseph, a mission, garrison, and trading post complex occupied from 1691 to 1781 by the French then British. Since its inception, the Project has cultivated a robust program of public archaeology to involve and invest the community in the preservation of the site and more generally, the...