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Lecture and Cocktails
March 22, 2018, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Archaeology under the Fairmont: Pittsburgh’s Hotel Museum
In 2007, archaeologists discovered 16 sites buried beneath the location planned for the Fairmont Hotel. The site once comprised homes, boarding houses, a botanical shop, a furniture maker, Pittsburgh’s first department store, and Andrew Carnegie’s first office. For 160 years, over 25,000 artifacts lay beneath 22 feet of dirt, brick, and stone. Discovering the relationships among these artifacts, the archaeological data and written history provided a new perspective about a time when Pittsburgh began to shape a frontier town into a great city.
Christine Davis, Archaeologist