Comments on: James Madison’s Montpelier has some new cool stuff to do…

By: Holladay House

Holladay House — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:47:42 +0000

Yes! You went to the field school a year or two after I did. On my excavation, we were search for Ambrose Madison's House, but they had found it by the time your dig had started. I've threatened to volunteer some time doing Archaeology at Montpelier, but just have not been able to pull it off. I hope to do that some this fall, or perhaps in the winter time when life slows down a little bit. Unlike a lot of archaeologists, I don't mind spending a day in the lab washing and cataloging artifacts!

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:17:56 +0000

That’s cool that they let people take part in the archeological digs there. I did that as part of my archeology class at JMU. Still something that I remember well, and I was able to point out where I was digging the last time I visited Montpelier with my wife. I believe that we were digging out the basement of James’ father’s place, which was a few hundred yards from the current mansion.

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