Lecture: "Can Archaeology Help Find the Lost Corbit Tannery?"

A PowerPoint presentation will be presented by John Bansch, a current volunteer of the Historic Odessa Foundation and past-president of the Sussex Chapter of the Archaeological Society of Delaware (2006 to 2010).
The first part of the presentation will describe how archaeology is used to find historical sites. John will use the Avery’s Rest excavation in Rehoboth Beach that he has worked at for the past 5 years as an example. Avery's Rest was the home site of Capt. John Avery, a wealthy and prominent early colonial settler who died in 1682.
The second part of the presentation will be an update on the historical research that John has been doing at the Historic Odessa Foundation on the lost Corbit tannery.
John is an amateur archaeologist who lives in Townsend. Archaeology projects that John has participated in during the past seven years include the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck Project in Lewes, Avery’s Rest site in Rehoboth, Cannon-Maston farm site in Seaford, Wildcat Manor site in Dover, and the Seawall Restoration project at Fort Delaware.