This Shaft Feature Snapshot summarizes excavation details, property history and recovered artifacts. Excavation details include measurements, photographs, and a profile illustrating stratigraphy and related contexts. The property history table outlines land ownership, residents and their occupations. The artifact assemblage is illustrated utilizing a series of tables quantifying types and providing date ranges of identifiable ceramics
Port Richmond
Neighborhood Map – Port Richmond
Explore archaeological sites in the Port Richmond Historic area.
Port Richmond – Gallery
Artifact Gallery Port Richmond The Port Richmond Site (Site Number 36PH0203) is located on the former city block bounded by Richmond, Ann, Melvale, and East Cambria Streets in the Port Richmond section of the city. This historic block now falls within the Conrail Philadelphia property. At the time of the 2010 excavations, the Port Richmond
Port Richmond Site
Site Page Port Richmond Explore Port Richmond: Site History Summary The land the Port Richmond Site occupied was originally part of William Ball’s eighteenth-century estate, and largely remained in his family until the 1840s, when developers acquired much of the block bounded by Richmond, Cambria, Melvale, and Ann Streets. Up to this point, little development