"The Greensboro Blockhouse Project: The Preliminary Results"

The Bayley-Hazen Military Road, from Newbury to Hazen's Notch, was to provide a speedy conduit for troops to reach southern Canada during the Revolutionary War. Jill Baker and Pat Haslam, authors of The Greensboro Blockhouse Project. An Historical and Archaeological Investigation in Greensboro, Vermont, will present the results of their preliminary investigations of the site considered to be that of the Revolutionary War period blockhouse in Greensboro, Vermont.

Dr. Jill Baker is an Independent Researcher in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and a Faculty Fellow (adjunct) in the Honors College at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. She has extensive excavation experience and is the author of The Funeral Kit. Mortuary Practices in the Archaeological Record (2012). From 2010 to the present, Jill has been the Executive Director of Archaeological Horizons, Inc., a non-profit organization facilitating archaeological research. She directed the Greensboro Blockhouse Project in Greensboro, Vermont.

Pat Haslam is a Certified Genealogist and has written and published eighty-six articles in national and regional genealogical journals and published ten books, including three award winners: Three Score & Ten Union Society (1993), The Annotated Cemetery Book, Stowe, Vermont 1798-1998: Histories & Inscriptions (1998), and Ski Pioneers of Stowe, VT: The First Twenty-Five Years (2013).

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