LSU Rural Life Museum Archaeology Lab

08/11/2017

Dear Chatsworth Project followers. Belatedly letting you know that friend and colleague Dr. Carl Kuttruff passed away July 23 in Baton Rouge. Carl's surgical skills with a backhoe played an important part during the Chatsworth Plantation site excavations. His skills and knowledge a likely to never be duplicated. -Dennis Jones

08/29/2016

NATCHEZ — In 40 years, the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians has created many memories for generations of local school children, historians, Natchez Powwow participants and tourists interested in Natchez’s early beginnings. These memories and more will be discussed Thursday when the Grand Village...

09/15/2015

The Chatsworth Plantation traveling exhibit is going strong! If you are in the Lafayette area, it will be on display through September!

Special Collections is proud to host the exhibit “Sharing the Sweet Life: 100 Years at the Chatsworth Sugar Plantation” in the Jefferson Caffery Reading Room through the month of September. The exhibit is presented by the LSU Rural Life Museum.

06/16/2015

In the late 1980s and 1990s, archaeologists discovered a bundle of objects buried under the floor of a house in Annapolis, in a room occupied by slaves.

05/13/2015

Hello Chatsworth fans! The exhibit has moved once again and is being featured in the Baton Rouge room at the Main Branch Library on Goodwood Blvd through May. There will also be a talk given on the site history and archaeology of Chatsworth on Wednesday, May 20th at 7:00pm in one of the library meeting rooms. Thank you to everyone for your continued support of the Chatsworth Plantation project. If you haven't had a chance to see the exhibit, come take a look!

04/15/2015

The Chatsworth Plantation exhibit, Sharing the Sweet Life, is on display at the Baker Branch EBRPL throughout April. If this is your local library, please go check out the exhibit!

03/23/2015

The Baton Rouge Chapter of the Louisiana Archaeological society presents Dr. Jay Edwards as the guest speaker for March 25, 2015. The meetings are held the last Wednesday of each month at the Bluebonnet Branch of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, starting at 7pm. See attached flyer for more information about the talk.

Flyer has been corrected! Apologies for the misprint in the date.

03/23/2015

The Baton Rouge Chapter of the Louisiana Archaeological society presents Dr. Jay Edwards as the guest speaker for March 25, 2015. The meetings are held the last Wednesday of each month at the Bluebonnet Branch of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, starting at 7pm. See attached flyer for more information about the talk.

03/09/2015

The Chatsworth Plantation exhibit, Sharing the Sweet Life, is on display at the Central Branch EBRPL throughout March. If this is your local library, please go check out the exhibit which now includes Civil War era artifacts as well as Prehistoric Native American artifacts showing the diverse occupations occurring on the Chatsworth property through history.

01/26/2015

Submitted a field photo from the Chatsworth excavations to The Post Hole journal photo contest!

The next installment of our The Post Hole Meets... interview series sees us talk to Dr Barry Taylor of the University of Chester.

01/07/2015

Sharing the Sweet Life: 100 Years at the Chatsworth Sugar Plantation is now on display at EBR Bluebonnet Regional Library from January 1-31. A talk will be given about the exhibit and Chatsworth Project on January 17th at 2pm!

01/07/2015

Calling all Civil War Buffs! While exploring through the collection again, we (re)discovered several Civil War Union Troop coat buttons that once belonged to general Staff and Infantry soldiers. We couldn't help but to include the US belt buckle! We have also cleaned up a Wisconsin State Seal coat button belonging to the 4th Wisconsin troop that fought in the Battle of Baton Rouge. Check them out!