Before Martha Zierden and the team from the Charleston Museum started the archaeological dig here, a previous owner told me that privy diggers had been on the property. The owner from whom she purchased the property in the late 1970s told her that the privy had been “dug” at some point. I later met the…
An unexpected journey
Tagged Historical Archaeology
Digging Deeper – Hoyt’s Nickel Cologne
This is the first post in an occasional series where will I dig deeper into the history of an artifact found here at the Chancognie House. I will start with the Hoyt’s Nickel Cologne bottle pictured above. Eli Waite Hoyt was born in Alexandria, NY in 1838 and moved with his parents to Lowell, MA…

