NYC Archaeological Repository:

The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
NYC Archaelogical Repository:
The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
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Clam Shell

Archaeological Details

Excavation Site

City Hall Park

Manhattan, City Hall Park, South of Chambers Street and East of Broadway between City Hall and Tweed Court House

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Part of Project

    • City Hall, New York, NY (1991)

      Testing, monitoring, and excavations uncovered historic burials, thousands of disarticulated human remains, a privy, a cold storage shed and other finds. The burials are either from the almshouse (most likely), African Burial Ground, or Revolutionary War prisoners. The artifacts and ...

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    • buried history

Part of Context

Related Events

    • First Almshouse (1735-1796)

      1735 - 1791

      New York City's first public institution to care for the poor. Constructed in the center of today's City Hall Park. Archaeological testing uncovered features related to this site.  For more information please see: City Hall Park

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    • almshouse

Related Objects

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CHP_1988_A2_Bottle
bottle
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Clam Shell
Undecorated Porcelain fragment
Unidentified Pearlware

(1725)