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Excavating the bottom of the wood-lined well showing the quantity of brick pieces that were excavated from the well shaft (in the buckets). Water is standing at the bottom of the feature.

Excavation of dense oyster shell, separate excavation of a shovel test from the earlier investigation in the center.

Late eighteenth century property ownership, improvements and stream courses relative to site 16OR721 and the modern landscape (base Google 2017).

Plan of New Orleans from around 1732-1735 annotated to label project area vicinity, the home of Louis Congo and other features.

Land ownership map from 1836-40 (Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, Acc. No. 1966.33.10 and Acc. No. 1966.34.36) showing two structures on the block at that time. One extends into the newly built Rocheblave Street. The current school…

Brick rubble shown in-situ during excavation.

Wooden artifacts recovered from the bottom of the wood-lined well: a) wooden brush handles; b) painted baseboard molding

Sample artifacts recovered from the bottom of the wood-lined well, Feature 1. These include a marble pestle handle (a) and multiple pieces of ceramics, including terracotta creamware, whiteware and ironstone.

Photograph of a map drawn between 1725-1735 of New Orleans and the area around it, between the Mississippi River and the lake.