There are few places that can embody the breadth of Pennsylvania’s narrative like Fort Halifax Park in Dauphin County.
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What better time of year than National Historic Preservation Month to announce the latest round of PA SHPO’s Community Initiative Award winners. This year’s projects and recipients showcase a range of preservation success stories, demonstrating the power of perseverance, collaboration and partnership.
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Finding the Fort: The Juniata College Field School at Fort Halifax Park – Part 2
In last week’s post, we introduced you to this past summer’s Juniata College Field School at Fort Halifax Park in Halifax, Dauphin County. This week, we’ll tell you about the “major discovery” we hinted at last week!
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Finding the Fort: The Juniata College Field School at Fort Halifax Park – Part 1
On our first day at our field school in archaeology, we searched through the soil for mountain peaks: or rather, mountain peak-shaped rocks. That’s the tip we were given for finding flakes -fragments of stone produced by Native American flintknapping.
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