The Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Research Group is hiring student researchers to form the 2024-2025 cohort! Students researchers will have the opportunity to gain experience in archaeological methods, mapping, 3D modeling, and geographic information systems working together on ongoing research and preservation projects with community partners in North Carolina, Alabama, and Virginia, including projects based […]
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This spring and summer, CHARG is working with Dr. Alexandra Jones of Archaeology in the Community on a community project in Mobile, Alabama. The project is part of an ongoing effort to document the cemetery at Africatown, a unique community in Mobile that was founded by a group of formerly enslaved Africans who had been
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Over the past year, CHARG has been working with the Friends of Odd Fellows Cemetery to support their efforts to reclaim the cemetery from decades of overgrowth and neglect. The Cemetery covers 10 acres of land in Winston-Salem, and is only a stone’s throw away from Wake Forest University’s campus, just behind the fairgrounds. Founded
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Last Spring, CHARG and Preservation Forsyth submitted a Certified Local Government (CLG) Grant with the City of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission to begin the research component of the Unmarked Initiative, Preservation Forsyth’s effort to raise awareness and document every African American cemetery in Forsyth County. CHARG worked with a Wake Forest University student, Christian
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We are very excited to announce the receipt of a Preservation Grant from the North Carolina Preservation Consortium. The funding will go towards the Ailey Young Digitization Project, specifically to support our work conducting photogrammetry of the house. The Ailey Young House Digitization Project is part of our collaboration with the Town of Wake Forest
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One of the projects that I am most intrigued about is the Town of Wake Forest’s restoration and interpretation of the Ailey Young House. The building is an architectural gem: a saddlebag style, two family structure with an exposed central chimney, standing 1.5 stories tall on dry-laid stone piers. The earliest date determined so far
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The Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Research Group is looking for three Wake Forest University undergraduate students to begin a year-long position working as Digital Heritage Research Technicians. These paid positions begin after the 2022 Spring Break, and last through next March, 2023. Student researchers will gain experience in archaeological field and lab methods, digital heritage
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Learn from the past, or you are bound to repeat it. This is as phrase we hear all the time. The idea that history is somehow cyclical, that what has happened in the past will happen again, and we need to understand the past so we don’t mess up again. I agree…in part. We do
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This spring, CHARG is excited to announce a unique opportunity for members of the Lifelong Learning Community to participate in archaeological excavations at James Madison’s Montpelier – the historic home of President James Madison, father of the US Constitution, the 1st First Lady, Dolley Madison, and the over 300 individuals enslaved by the Madisons and
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