Based on data obtained through survey, excavation, and archival research to date, here are just a few of the locations and tasks on which our 2010 research and field work efforts could be focused:

** Undertake targeted geophysical surveys and excavations in the area of Block 12, Lots 1-4, in which a shovel test pit survey in 2005 uncovered indications of occupation site remains; there also exists limited evidentiary leads indicating this block may have been a location for an African-American school house.

** Continue core sampling and excavations of the site of Louisa McWorter’s house on Block 13, Lots 3 and 4, on which geophysical surveys and partial excavations were undertaken in 2005.

** Continue core sampling and excavations of the site of a blacksmith shop located in the area of Block 3, Lots 1 and 2, on which geophysical surveys and partial excavations were undertaken in 2006.

** Undertake targeted geophysical surveys, and subsequent core sampling and excavations, in the area of Block 11, Lots 1-2, on the eastern edge of the town site; historian Claire Martin’s research indicates these lots were owned in the mid-1850s by Josephus Turpin, an African American with a small household listed in the 1855 state census, and who served as a sergeant in the 29th Colored Infantry during the Civil War.

** Use a hammer-driven soil core sampler to test thermal anomalies from the 2008 low-altitude aerial survey and to further explore the stratigraphic profiles of earthen terraces on the west side of the town site.

** Undertake core sampling and excavations on selected locations on the northernmost portions of the ridge-top of terrace 1 in Figure 7.3 of this report; AMS core samples of that terrace ridge in 2008 revealed intact stratigraphic profiles; this terrace ridge runs immediately to the west of known occupation locations in Block 4.

** Undertake geophysical and core sampling surveys in the area of Block 2, immediately to the east of the known occupation locations and blacksmith shop site in Block 3; commence excavations in this block where warranted by survey results.

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