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Recovering Sandpoint’s Past: The Sand Creek Byway Archaeological Project

A team of archaeologists, headed by James Bard and Robert Weaver, designed and implemented a series of excavations which recovered large portions of Sandpoint’s buried past. This archaeological dig is arguably the largest project in Idaho’s history, presenting archaeologists with a unique set of stories about life in the earliest years of Sandpoint.

The Sandcreek Byway Archaeological Project has produced one of the largest archaeological collections in the Northwest. Almost 600,000 artifacts were recovered from this project; a project that has spanned over three sites, three years of excavation and two years of lab work. On loan from the University of Idaho, the Museum now hosts a display from this vast collection.

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