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

Initial excavation of Feature 1, showing the darker soil outline of the wood-lined well in the wall. Notice the brick and shell embedded in the cross-section.

Excavating oyster shell layer on historic ground surface

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

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

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

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

Archaeologist taking measurements of Feature 1, the wood-lined well,

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

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…