Flat Rock African-American Museum & Archives 1st annual celebration honors ancestors
Submitted by Kelly Woodard ([email protected]) Celebrants gathered at location of Flat Rock Historic Church. More photos are below the story; click on thumbnails to enlarge. This past weekend I found myself attending the Flat Rock Archives Slave Cemetery Dedication and Libation Ceremony in Lithonia, Georgia.
Read MoreFlat Rock Community history celebration: October 30th
The Flat Rock Archives and Museum is hosting its 1st Annual Commemorative Ancestors’ Walk and Community History Celebration Saturday, October 30, 2010. Flat Rock Archives and Museum invites you to join efforts to restore, preserve and protect the historic Flat Rock Slave Cemetery—the resting place of more than two hundred slaves and ancestors.
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a person who makes stone tools Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreFood storage is linked to horticulture
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Reconstructed corn crib (elevated storage structure) in the museum at Angel Mounds, a Middle Mississippian period archaeological site in southern Indiana that is a State Park open to the public.
Read MoreForensic anthropologist to speak at UNG
Accomplished forensic anthropologist, Dr. Frederick Snow, is coming to UNG to give a talk titled, “No Hummers, No Leather Pants, No DNA in Ten Minutes, No CSI.” His talk will be held at the Health and Natural Sciences Auditorium at the Dahlonega Campus of the University of North Georgia.
Read MoreFort Daniel and GARS to host annual Frontier Faire October 15-16, 2011
Submitted by James J. D’Angelo (President and Site Archaeologist) The Fort Daniel Foundation and the Gwinnett Archaeological Research Society will hold their Annual Frontier Faire on October 15-16, 2011, at 2505 Braselton Highway 124, Hog Mountain, Dacula, Georgia.
Read MoreFort Daniel event is in the news
On Saturday, May 22, 2010, Fort Daniel hosted the Fort Daniel Faire and Public Archaeology Event, 11alive reports online. Reporter Jennifer Leslie writes about this historical site that sits on private property:
Read MoreFort Daniel Fair a success
The Gwinnett County chapter of SGA, Gwinnett Archaeological Research Society, and The Fort Daniel Foundation sponsored the fifth annual Fort Daniel Frontier Fair on Saturday, October 19, 2013 at Fort Daniel on Highway 124 in Buford, Georgia.
Read MoreFort Daniel Foundation schedules annual meeting for December 15th
The Fort Daniel Foundation has scheduled its annual meeting for 7:00 pm on December 15th at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center (GJAC) in Lawrenceville in the 2nd floor conference room center.
Read MoreFort Daniel named "Regionally Important Resource"
Submitted by James J. D'Angelo ([email protected]) Jim D’Angelo, member of the SGA and the SGA chapter Gwinnett Archaeological Research Society—GARS, as well as leader with the Fort Daniel Foundation, recently sent the following: “You will be proud, I’m sure, to know that our Fort Daniel project as been named a ‘Regionally Important Resource’ by the Atlanta Regional Commission.
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