For the first time, the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources’ State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program (SCRAP) is offering a two-week archaeological field school in Historical Archaeology.  The program will be in coordination with Antioch University and under the direction of the Division’s Historical Archaeologists Edna Feighner and Tanya Kress.  

Participants will survey, locate and map the Broad Brook Community (1840-1920s), originally identified in 1983 through an archaeological field school conducted through Keene State College. The area is considered important in local history because of early lumbering activities that took place there; it was also the site of the Broad Brook Steam Lumber Mills. Previously unexplored areas, from Fullam Pond to Hardscrabble (later named Nash City, settled in the 1780s), will also be assessed.

This will be the first of many State Park surveys that the DHR will facilitate in partnership with other State agencies and organizations.

For details and to download a flyer please click on the link below:

Pisgah Flyer

Field School Registration Form

Above: Historic Archaeologist Tanya Kress training the
Lyme Historians on historic site survey and mapping

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