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Community Engaged Bioarchaeology at a Historic Poor Farm in Brentwood, New Hampshire (1841-1868) (2025)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through bioarchaeological analyses, archival research, and community engagement, we explore the lives and deaths of individuals interred at the Brentwood Poor Farm in Brentwood, NH (1841-1868). The site of the town Poor Farm and the accompanying unmarked burial ground are under private ownership. The space has been documented by the State and will be protected in perpetuity so that no...