Client:
Pittsburgh Pirates
Project:
Archaeology in the Outfield Exhibit
Location:
Pittsburgh
Awards:
American Cultural Resource Association 2002
Our Role:
Phase I & II Surveys; Data Recovery, Historic Structure Survey; Exhibit
CDC completed all cultural resource studies for the PNC Park: Home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The General Robinson Site was found buried beneath 17 feet of modern fill. Hundreds of ceramic, glass and wood objects from the 1832 flood were brought to the surface after being buried for 166 years. The collection is one of the earliest and most significant in the City of Pittsburgh. As mitigation for impacts to this site, CDC installed a permanent exhibit at PNC Park to display the artifacts found there.
Additional Interest: The Pirates donated all artifacts, field notes and photographs to Carnegie Museum. Among the important artifacts were a complete wooden door, porcelain from China, a water pitcher from England, and plate with a scene from Don Quixote. General Robinson owned the property that became the Mexican War Streets on Pittsburgh’s North Side.
Beneath the artifacts owned by General Robinson was an intact level with Native American arrow points, pottery and corn preserved under 17 feet of concrete and flood deposits.
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