Minnesota Ghost Town Rediscovered

During my year-long project documenting Nienow Cultural Consultants' comprehensive cultural survey of Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape area in central Minnesota, I was lucky enough to be a part of several exciting historical discoveries. One of these was the rediscovery of the long gone and mostly forgotten 19th century Minnesota town of Dixville. I created a short documentary video of both the town and its rediscovery. Click the title to check it out here or visit NCC's YouTube channel.

More information: 

Lost Settlement of Dixville video on NCC YouTube channel


Related project: 

CRSL Archaeology

For nearly a year, I was "embedded" with the archaeologists at Nienow Cultural Consultants as they conducted a Comprehensive Literature Review – basically a full survey of cultural, historical and archaeological features – in a federally-defined geographical buffer area surrounding the Camp Ripley military base in central Minnesota. My job was to document their work which included: discovering long forgotten "ghost towns"; conducting a public archaeology dig; interviewing local historians, etc. I went along for the ride with video camera and microphone recording it all. Check out some of the videos I created during the project.

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