2004 Field School in Industrial Archaeology

Michigan Technological University

Michigan Tech is running a course in Field Archaeology from May 17 through June 25, 2004 at the site of the West Point Foundry. The field school is providing training in a full range of methods and techniques, including survey, excavation, photography and mapping.

The 2004 Field School continues the research at the site of the West Point Foundry. This site is in Cold Spring, New York, in the Hudson River Valley north of New York City. Michigan Tech continues a long-term research project on this famous industrial site, owned and managed by the Scenic Hudson Land Trust. The 2004 field team will continue the total station mapping project and excavations in selected areas of the site, including both industrial and domestic components.	Click HERE to see a slide show of West Point Foundry Field School photographs
Click HERE to read about the research at the West Point Foundry site	Click HERE to read about the West Point Foundry Collection located at the Putnam County Historical Society
Click HERE to see photographs from the 2002 Field School Click HERE to see report about 2002 Field School	Click HERE to read about Robert Parker Parrott, Superintendent of the Foundry in 1839 and see early images of the Foundry from the Smithsonian web site Click HERE to see a landscape image of the West Point Foundry location from the Wade & Croome's Panorama of the Hudson River from New York To Albany. (1846) from the New York Public Library web site
Click HERE to read about the Ed Rutsch Memorial Fund. Funds will go to support students working on the project & studying to be the next generation of Industrial Archaeology professionals.	Click HERE to read about "Finding America's Industrial Past, researchers unearth secrets of the West Point Foundry" Click HERE to read a published news item about the 2003 Field school Click HERE to read a published news item about the 2002 Field school Click HERE to read even more about the 2002 Field School