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News Coverage: Dig Featured in NPR Weekend Edition

September 29, 2025

Our Rock Springs Chinatown archaeology project has received national coverage since our last post! We were featured as a story on yesterday morning’s NPR Weekend Edition (Sunday), which means that potentially millions of people across the U.S. learned about the 1885 Chinese Massacre, the commemoration events that brought descendants to Rock Springs earlier this month,…
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Recap on the 2025 Rock Springs Chinatown excavation

September 10, 2025

In July, Grinnell College, Western Anthropological & Archaeological Research Institute, and descendants of historic Rock Springs Chinese residents (Lian Lew and Ricky Leo), teamed up to excavate the city’s former Chinatown in rural southwestern Wyoming. After two and half weeks, the students returned to Grinnell College to do some artifact washing for a week. They…
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Porcelain House Wiring Cleats and Electricity in Rock Springs Chinatown

July 30, 2025

Hello everyone! This is Julia and I’m here to tell you about some of my favorite artifacts that we have been cataloging from Rock Springs Chinatown: porcelain house wiring cleats. Wiring cleats were used in an early interior wiring method called Knob-and-Tube wiring. In this method, wires, insulated with rubber or thermoplastic, were run through…
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Buried Chinatowns

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News Coverage: Dig Featured in NPR Weekend Edition

Recap on the 2025 Rock Springs Chinatown excavation

Porcelain House Wiring Cleats and Electricity in Rock Springs Chinatown

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