Springfield, Missouri-Missouri State University has announced that a team from the Center for Arcological Research (CAR) has located one of the early houses of Springfield on the McKinzie Town Sand site, causing it to be a moment of thought. The property was built in the 1830s by William Townund, which moved from Tennessee to Missouri in 1832, and by the mid -1850s, he lived on this land by enslaving his family and individuals. Although the previous excavations exposed the civil war buttons and other samples of the nineteenth century, the exact location of the original house was unknown until archaeologists detected a 10-foot-long part of the Interior Wall Foundation. The spread of nails on the site showed that there were wooden floor boards in the building, and a layer of floor broom inside the house was revealed, including ash, ceramics and other debris that were likely to fall down from the floor to the floor. “That’s clean,” said Kevin Kapka Head, director of the car. “You really can’t find sites with so much retaining so much. It offers a glimpse of the daily life of life in the Spring Field.” The team is hoping that the future excavation on the site may also identify several outbuits and one of the region’s early heading cemeteries, which has been lost for more than a century. To read about an infamous wagon train that has come out freely, Missouri, in 1846, “Letter from California: a new look at the donor party.”
