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Tour participants walk past a golf course on the way to the Rosenstock site.

The Conservancy Hosts Tour of the Rosentock Preserve

EAST—The staff of the Conservancy’s Eastern region office recently hosted a tour of the Rosenstock Preserve as part of Maryland’s Archeology Awareness Month. The tour was attended by members of the Archeological Society of Maryland (ASM), the Monocacy Archeological Society, and current and former Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) archaeologists Maureen Kavanagh and Tyler Bastion.

Rosenstock was preserved through a cooperative effort between Aldi Inc., the City of Frederick, and the Conservancy. The site features an extraordinary well-preserved Late Woodland village dating from A.D. 1300-1450 with artifacts that are rarely found east of the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys.

For many of the participants it was their first opportunity to visit the site since they had taken part in the research conducted by the ASM and the MHT in 1979, and then from 1990 through 1992. The group recounted many stories from their experiences then, which included finding structures and the discovery of a pit containing unfired raw clay for ceramic production. They also saw how the site has changed over the last 20 years as well as what the Conservancy has done to manage it.

SOUTHWEST—Mark Michel and Jim Walker received the 2012 Stephen H. Hart Award For Archaeology this February. The annual Hart awards recognize outstanding projects and individual achievements in historic preservation throughout Colorado. Michel, the Conservancy’s president, and Walker, vice president and Southwestern regional director, were honored by the Colorado Historical Society for “a lifetime of service to preserve some of the most significant, yet most threatened, archaeological properties” in the state.

The Conservancy has acquired 18 sites in Colorado, six of which were purchased using State Historical Fund grants. The Conservancy has also assisted a number of individuals and preservation organizations that are protecting Colorado’s archaeological heritage.

The Historical Society also lauded Michel and Walker for preparing a number of National and State Register of Historical Places nominations and

The article “The Battle For The Dunkirk Schooner,” which appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of American Archaeology, won the Society For American Archaeology’s Gene S. Stuart Award.

The award, which is in memory of the late Gene S. Stuart, a writer and managing editor of National Geographic Society books, honors outstanding efforts to enhance public understanding of archaeology. The award is given to the most interesting and responsible original story or series about any archaeological topic published in a newspaper or magazine.

“The Battle For The Dunkirk Schooner” is about the legal contest between a private salvage firm that wants to raise a 19th-century shipwreck from the bottom of Lake Erie and the State of New york, which wants the wreck to be preserved there. The award carries a $2,000 prize, which was given to the author, Mike Toner, a freelance journalist. Toner also won the award in 2001.

Edward C. Nichols (left), the president of History Colorado, presents the Stephen H. Hart Award For Archaeology to Jim Walker.

for helping to develop and fund site management plans, easements, and educational materials.

The Colorado Historical Society began presenting the Stephen H. Hart Awards in 1986. The awards are named after Colorado’s first state historic preservation officer.

American Archaeology Article Wins National Prize