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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.

Bottom of the wood-lined well excavations showing the standing water that collected in the units, and the brick rubble in the white bucket.

The home of Paul Capdeveille at 2410 Esplanade Avenue in February 1908 (photo by L. E. Cormier) as printed in The Daily Picayune, 23 February 1908, page 6 as one of the 'Beautiful New Orleans Homes.'

Brick rubble shown in-situ during excavation.

Decorated early whiteware ceramic sherd from a child's plate.

Excavating oyster shell layer on historic ground surface

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.

Excavations under the oaks with digging in the foreground and the screening of artifacts in the background.

Excavation of Feature 1, the wood-lined well, with the school building in the background.

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