African Burial Ground (New York City)

This site is presented by the Schomburb Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public Library) and the (US) General Services Administration. The largest African American colonial cemetery in America was discovered during the construction of a federal office building in New York City. Explore this web site to see what has been learned from this important archaeological site.

The Five Points Site (New York City)

Many people learned about the Five Points section of New York City from the fictional film ?Gangs of New York?. Learn what archaeologists and historians rediscovered about this famous nineteenth-century New York neighborhood when they excavated the area in advance of construction for a new courthouse.

Franklin Court (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

The results of archaeological research conducted at the site of Benjamin Franklin?s house in Philadelphia can be explored in these 75 linked pages of web content.