Readers can now find relevant news items compiled all in one place! In our CRM Firms in the News series, we feature recent mentions of ACRA member firms and their projects across the country. Was your firm recently featured in a news article or on social media? Send it to us to be included in our next volume of the series!
- Dovetail Cultural Resource Group is giving back to their local community by establishing a scholarship for students at the University of Mary Washington. Read more about this opportunity for historic preservation students in the Free Lance-Star.
- Heritage Research Associates Inc. was a part of the efforts to preserve a site in Oregon believed to have been visited by Meriwether Lewis & William Clark. Artifacts found, including tools and stone bowl fragments, suggest that the site is the location of a Chinookan village detailed in journals of the famed explorers. Read more in this piece from the Lewiston Tribune!
- A person’s trash tells a lot about their life, and this is even true for garbage buried for over a century! Staff from Alpine Archaeology had the chance to examine long-buried refuse from the household of Gen. William Jackson Palmer, a wealthy railroad magnate and founder of Colorado Springs. Read more about how these finds are helping historians learn more about the turn-of-the-century life in area in this piece from the Colorado Sun and the video below!
DiscoverCOS: Archaeological Dig from City of Colorado Springs on Vimeo.