Digging for mid-1800s trash uncovers lives of Corktown residents
Caroline Blackmon, Detroit Free Press Published 6:01 a.m. ET July 1, 2018
A broken piece of pottery. A discarded milk carton. A shattered medicine bottle.
By themselves, they look like junk or something trash pickers left behind.
But together, they tell a story of gritty work life in one of Detroit's oldest neighborhoods. Taken from tenement houses, or row houses, the remnants are from archaeological digs spanning 11 years as researchers and historians piece them together to create a picture of the lives of these workers.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/07/01/corktown-archaeology-digging-uncovers-stories/745042002/
