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New Philadelphia
Time Team America excavates at New Philadelphia

Time Team America excavates at New Philadelphia

Laurance Johnson
New Philadelphia is the site of an historic and now completely abandoned and empty town, established by Free Frank McWorter in the early 19th century, after he bought himself and his family out of slavery in Kentucky. Time Team America visited the field school led by Christopher Fennel and Anna Agbe-Davies in June 2008, and the program aired on July 22, 2009.

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PBS: Time Team America at New Philadelphia, where you can watch the program in its entirety beginning July 23, 2009.

New Philadelphia Home Page. Chris Fennell's home page on New Philadelphia, with complete reports on the excavations including that from 2008, when the Time Team was there.

Block 8, Lots 1-2: Searching for the African-American School House (Report on the Time Team excavations)

McWorter Family website

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    Fennell, Christopher C. 2009. Combating Attempts of Elision: African American Accomplishments at New Philadelphia, Illinois. Pages 147-168 in Intangible Heritage Embodied. Edited by Helaine Silverman and Fairchild Ruggles. Springer, New York.

    Fennell, Christopher C. 2008. Excavating Strata of Memory and Forgetting. SAA Record 8(1): 17-22

    King, Charlotte. 2008. Preservation Strategy for the New Philadelphia Town Site. Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md

    Shackel, Paul A. 2007. Civic Engagement and Social Justice: Race on the Illinois Frontier. pp. 243-262 in Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement. Edited by Barbara Little and Paul A. Shackel. Altamira, Walnut Creek CA.

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