Architecture & Archaeology Working Together at the Carter Farmhouse

The Carter Farmhouse, which was initially constructed ca. 1780 as a plantation dwelling by William Clark, a miller and farmer in Delaware in the late eighteenth century. During Clark’s ownership and occupancy of the plantation, it was documented that there were seventeen enslaved persons living on the plantation. Following Clark’s ownership, the dwelling and surrounding farmland passed through notable families that were part of Delaware’s rural elite as an agricultural tenancy site throughout the nineteenth century and remained a tenancy into the early twentieth century. The Carter Farmhouse came into the ownership of the Carter Family in 1949 until the farm was purchased by the current owner in 2004.
Featuring the following presenters:
Todd Breck, AIA, P.E. - Breckstone Architecture, A Martin Architectural Group Studio
Michael J. Emmons, Jr. - Director of Historic Preservation & Architectural Research, Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts
Wade Catts, RPA – President, South River Heritage Consulting, LLC
Bill Liebeknect, MA, RPA – Senior Project Archaeologist, Dovetail Cultural Resource Group"