Queen Lane Archaeology

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Queen Lane Redevelopment Project/
1755 Germantown Potter’s Field
or Stranger’s Burial Ground
 

Project Area – Circa 1775″, in Phase 1 Archaeological Survey (ER 2011-0018-101), Philadelphia Housing Authority Queen Lane Apartments Project City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Appendix B, Figure 3. Prepared by Rachael E. Fowler, RPA, Philip Ruth, and Kenneth J. Basalik, Ph.D. Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. Lansdale, Pennsylvania, for Shoemaker/Synterra, a JV, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428.

May 2013


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Philadelphia Archaeological Forum was a Consulting Party to the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Queen Lane development in Germantown. The project was in the location of the 1755 Germantown Potter’s Field, or Stranger’s Burial Ground.
 
Learn more about this project here…
The Queen Lane Phase I Archaeological Survey is available for download at the Philadelphia Housing Authority Web pages:

Queen Lane Phase I Archaeological Survey
Appendix E – Geophysical Survey – Grave Detection Delineation Beneath Paved Parking Lot
Appendix E (a) – GPR Survey Results by 5 Inch Horizontal Slice Increments

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News Coverage
Archaeological Dig at Germantown Potter’s Field Site will not start before March
01/25/2012, Newsworks
Queen Lane Apartments demo in limbo as archaeologists, historic-preservation experts plan Potter’s Field visit
Three Possible Grave Sites discovered at Potter’s field site in Germantown
July 13, 2012, Newsworks WHYY
Underground Search of the Potter’s Field in Germantown commences
April 11, 2012, Newsworks WHYY


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