Deadwood Chinatown

In the early summer of 2001, workers demolishing an old building for a new parking lot in Deadwood uncovered the remains of a part of the old Chinatown district. The city stepped in and asked the Archaeological Research Center to undertake the excavations to save the site as part of Deadwood's historic preservation efforts. A crew from the Center, led by archaeologists Rose Estep Fosha and Dan Byrne, conducted an excavation at the site which ran into September. They followed up with excavations in 2002 and 2003.