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Chapter Meeting
Friday, August 16
William Black
Paleo People in Western
Crawford County
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North Fork 29 Artifact Show
Saturday, August 31
9:00 - 3:00
Jefferson County Fairgrounds
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Chapter Meeting
Friday, September 20
Michael Meehan
The Writing on the Wall
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Chapter Meeting
Friday, October 18
Bob Oshnock
Chapter 23 Excavations of
Three Rock Shelters
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Chapter Meeting
Friday, October November 15
Brian Fritz & Kat Lyons
Jefferson Co. Historical Society Historical
Videos Project
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DECEMBER
No Chapter Meeting
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Paleo People in Western Crawford County
In Western Crawford County, retreating terminal and lateral kame moraines, glacial outwash and a warming climate created a unique biosphere in the late Pleistocene (15,000 BP – 11,700 BP) and early Holocene (11,700 BP – 8,700 BP). This paper presents a geologic, bio-climatic progression across the region including glacial Conneaut Lake, the Conneaut Marsh Outlet, Pymatuning, Hartstown and Muddy Creek marshes, wet-land prairies, and a mixed upland topography. It discusses pollen-core time markers, locations of recovered mega-fauna remains, and the Paleo people’s presence identified from plowed-field “surface finds.”
The Writing on the Wall
The 105th Pennsylvania fought its last engagement at the battle of Deantonville, VA just three days before the end of the Civil at Appomattox Court House. In 2021 the names of some of the regiments wounded were found scrawled on a wall of a building used as a makeshift field hospital. This program will detail the history of how they got there and the salvage project to preserve them.
Chapter 23 Excavations of Three Rock Shelters
Three rock shelters were excavated in Westmoreland County Pa. by the Westmoreland Archaeological Society on Chestnut Ridge in a stream hollow that drains the side of the mountain at an elevation of 2060 feet. They were located 36 meters apart and were occupied in the Middle to Early Woodland time period by the same group of inhabitants. Their usage of cherts for tool making was sourced to locally available chert workshops
Jefferson County Historical Video Project
This program will present of preview of the Jefferson County Historic Video Project funded by the National Humanities Council as a way of teaching local history through the Jefferson County Historical Societies YouTube channel.
2024 Meeting Schedule
Chapter Meeting Abstracts
North Fork Chapter 29
Meets at 7 pm on the 3rd Friday of each month except December, June and July at the Presbyterian Church Education Building,
Corner of Main and White Street
Brookville , PA 15825
Everyone Welcome
Contact ken Burkett
kenburkett@comcast.net
(814) 229-2816