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The Eden House Site: An Early Albemarle Settlement on the Chowan River

http://www.ncdot.org/doh/preconstruct/pe/ohe/archaeology/edenhouse/
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Provider: North Carolina Department of Transportation

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Appropriate grades
3–12
Subjects
social studies (North Carolina, United States history)
Provider
North Carolina Department of Transportation

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The North Carolina Department of Transportation presents The Eden House Site. This website provides information about the discoveries the NC DOT and archaeologists made when preparing the area around the Eden House for roadwork. “They uncovered the remains of one of the oldest settlements in the Albemarle region. Traces of two houses, a barn, a well, trash pits, fencelines, a privy (outdoor bathroom), and thousands of objects (which archaeologists call artifacts) thrown away by the people who lived at the site show us today what life was like in early North Carolina.”

This website will help you to learn about the history of the Eden House, what the archaeologists found while excavating there, what kinds of objects colonial people used in their homes, and how archaeologists work.