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The Enterprise Hotel field site is located in Old Sacramento near the State Railroad Museum and Sacramento History Museum. Today the site is a prominent stop on the Sacramento Underground Tour and recent display additions highlight the work of our lab. This rendition of the excavation was drawn by Richard Allen, Jr. in 1980 and includes prominent features including the brick-lined privy, foundations, and various soil types.
One benefit of reviving an old collection is that we can use contemporary tools for analysis. 3-D modeling of this kind was not available in the 1970s but today we have a new appreciation of what the original neighborhood may have looked like. This reproduction was based on a historic lithograph of Sacramento (courtesy of Trisha McNeill and Josh McNeill).
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