Selected Reprints


FOSA/OSA Photos at Connecticut Archaeology Center

by John Spaulding


Since August, 2000, John Spaulding has been photographing FOSA-assisted projects, when requested, for the Connecticut Office of State Archaeology. These photographs have been printed and placed in three ring binders. Over the past six years they have been displayed at the sites and at selected venues to promote the work of FOSA and educate the public about archaeology in Connecticut.

As the projects progressed, a complete file of images has been periodically provided to the Office of State Archaeology for use in reports and slide shows. The books for projects prior to 2006 have been transferred to the Connecticut Archaeology Center facility at Horsebarn Hill in Storrs with the exception of the Pitkin Tomb and Pitkin Glassworks binders.

FOSA three-ring binders of Photos transferred to Connecticut Archaeology Center on February 5, 2007:
Gershom Bulkeley Tomb, Colchester, May 2002 - August 2002
Gershom Bulkeley Tomb, Colchester, Reconstruction and Reburial, November 2002 - October 2003
Gershom Bulkeley Tomb, Colchester, Coffin Lids and Genealogy, including gravestone markers from the adjacent cemetery, June 2002 - April 2003
Ground Penetrating Radar, March and July 2004: Plainfield, Brookfield, Woodbury Glebe House, Henry Whitfield Museum; Green Cemetery, Glastonbury; Solomon Goffe House, Meriden; Harriett Beecher Stowe House, Hartford.
Ground Penetrating Radar, July, 2005: Glastonbury Historical Society; North Cemetery, Hampton; Bennett Cemetery, Newtown; Crime Scene, Stamford; Merriman Cemetery, Southington; Harriett Beecher Stowe House, Hartford.
Mason Island, Mystic, Photographs by David Cooke, October 2004
Bates Tavern, East Granby, November 2003 - June 2004
Old Newgate Prison, East Granby, June 2004 - September 2004
Clinton, Lisbon, Guilford: Clinton Nursery Site, Clinton, June-July 2003;
John Bishop House, Lisbon, July 2003; Tanner Marsh Site, Guilford, July 2003.
Terry House, Enfield, August 2002
Dina Site, South Windsor, June - August 2005
Day Museum, Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, May 2006
John Brown Birthplace, Torrington, August - September 2002
Joseph Peters Gravesite, Exhumation and Reburial, East Hampton, Hebron, December 2001 - October 2002
Gates-Throop Tomb, East Haddam, October 2003
Wadsworth House, East Hartford, September - November 2002
Horton Exhumations, Wolcott, July - November 2002
Peter Pond Search, Milford, August 2002, Photographs by Ruth Brown and John Spaulding
FOSA Pictures, Misc.: Fairfield Library, August 2004; Rock Enclosure, Glastonbury, June 2004; Picking Patch, Simsbury, May 2003; Benton House, Glastonbury, 2004; Asher Wright House, Coventry, June - July 2004; Cheney Homestead, Manchester, June 2002; Gillette Castle, East Haddam, October 2002; Riverside Cemetery, Farmington, Gillette Grave, October 2002; Catholic Cemetery, Portland, June 2004; African Burying Ground, Manhattan, Visit with Warren Perry at CCSU, date not recorded; Berlin School, Berlin, March 2004.

FOSA Photographs, 2005:
FOSA Annual Meeting, Doug Owsley, Hunley, Glastonbury, January 2005; Red Hill, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Middle School classes, October 2005;
Kennedy Cemetery, Voluntown, September 2005; Todd Street Site aka Eaton Brook, Hamden, September 2005; Beach Street Site, Indian burial, Waterford, 2005; Blanchard Cemetery, Johnston, RI, May 2005; Coventry Proposed Development, July 2004.
John Avery House, Preston, March - April 2005
Bison Brook Farm Cemetery, North Stonington, May - September, 2003
Samuel Huntington Tomb, Norwichtown, October - November 2003
Holden- Allen Tomb, Woodstock, July 2004 - January 2006

FOSA three-ring Binders of Photos transferred to Connecticut Archaeology Center on February 3, 2008:
Cove River Site, West Haven, 2004 - 2006
Electro-Magnetic Surveys, Salem, Simsbury, September 2006
Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys, May 2006: Evergreen Cemetery, Westport; Merritt Parkway, Round Hill Road, Exit 28, Greenwich; Pet Burial, 312 Old Church Road, Greenwich; Bissell Ferry Site, Ferry Road, South Windsor, May and Nov 2006.
Kenneway Site, 14 Little Street, Manchester, September 2006
Kisko Site, Canton, July 2006

Miscellaneous FOSA Photographs, 2006, Book 1: •Red Hill, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Middle School Students; Hanover Estates, Hanover, CT; Horton Farm, Glastonbury; Bradley Crash Site Investigation, Windsor Locks; David Bushnell Site, Westbrook; East Canaan Cemetery, Canaan, CT; Walton Cemetery Site, Hopeville Cemetery, Griswold.

Miscellaneous FOSA Photographs, 2006, Book 2:
Projectile Points, 190 Hollow Road, Watertown, August 2007; Evarts, March Burials, Salisbury, August 2006; Proposed Archaeological Preserve, Den Road, Easton, August, 2006; Fort Hill, Projectile Points, Thompson, September 2006; Scanned Slides of Adena Site, Hollister Site, Glastonbury, 1971.
Sturges Park Burials, Fairfield, August 2006
Documenting Venture Smith, East Haddam, July 10-25, 2006, Book 1
Documenting Venture Smith, East Haddam, July 26-29, 2006, Book 2
Documenting Venture Smith, East Haddam, July 30 - August 5, 2006, Book 3
Documenting Venture Smith, East Haddam, Miscellaneous Research and Press Reports, Book 4.

The books that are being retained as mentioned above and those assembled this year are:
Pitkin Glass Works, September 2001 thru November 2006
Pitkin Glass Works Ground Penetrating Radar, November 2001
Henry Opukaha'ia, Cornwall Cemetery, being retained until release of documentary Native of Owhyhee by Stoneman Productions

Miscellaneous FOSA Photographs 2007: Annual Meeting; Gondek Site, Ferry Lane, Glastonbury, April 2007; Gardner Site, Brook Street, Rocky Hill, May 2007; Ground Penetrating Radar, June 2007: (a) Main Street, Rocky Hill, (b) Wethersfield Meadows, (c) 15 Farrell Street, Newtown. Tryon Site, Glastonbury, October 2007, Glastonbury Schools; Espicopal-Congregational Church Cemetery, Oxford, March 2007.
Rogers Site, Lisbon, October 2006 thru October 2007
Rogers Site, Lisbon, Book 2, October 2007 thru August 7, 2008 including Ground Penetrating Radar on April 23, 2008
Tour of Abandoned Cemeteries with David Leff, May 2008
Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys, April 2008: Enfield Green, Grant Foundation; Shelton Driveway; Firebacks, Redding; Preston Plains; Main Street, Newington; Pine Island Cemetery, Norwalk.
Welles-Shipman-Ward House, Glastonbury, April 2008 thru August 15, 2008
Miscellaneous Photographs 2008: Annual Meeting, January; Wakeman Cemetery, Fairfield; Bradley Airport, July- August; Vampire Sites in Rhode Island, May.