Excavating the Jack Hopkins House (Sessi

John “Jack” Hopkins was an important member of the Black community of Gettysburg in the 1800s. At the time of the Civil War, Jack was the janitor for Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College) and he lived with his family on campus in a custodial house located behind Pennsylvania Hall. Since 2021, the Department of Anthropology at Gettysburg College has been excavating the site of this house in order to better understand the diverse lives of people on campus and in the surrounding community in the nineteenth century. In this talk, Professor Benjamin Luley will present the findings from the past three seasons of excavations of the house, as well as potential future work.

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Rebecca Barth

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