{"id":49412,"date":"2025-10-09T04:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/projects\/i-95-girard-avenue-interchange-cultural-resource-investigations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:55:16","slug":"i-95-girard-avenue-interchange-cultural-resource-investigations","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/projects\/i-95-girard-avenue-interchange-cultural-resource-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"I-95\/Girard Avenue Interchange Cultural Resource Investigations\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"aecom-custom-block block-intro-text\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 40px\">\n    <p class=\"editor-emphasized\">\n        Urban Archaeology along I-95 in Downtown Pennsylvania     <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>ArchTam is currently supporting the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation\u2019s rebuild of Interstate 95 at the Girard Avenue Interchange (<a href=\"https:\/\/95revive.com\/project-sectors\/sector-a\/gir-girard-avenue-interchange\/gir-overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/95revive.com\/project-sectors\/sector-a\/gir-girard-avenue-interchange\/gir-overview\/<\/a>), conducting multi-year Phase IB through Phase III archaeological investigations guided by a Programmatic Agreement along a three-mile-long segment of I-95 in Philadelphia that includes the Northern Liberties, Kensington-Fishtown, and Port Richmond neighborhoods. This project area traverses portions of the city\u2019s historic Delaware River waterfront and crosses some of its oldest neighborhoods.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>To date, data recovery investigations have documented 15 individual historic sites, including portions of the former Aramingo Canal, the Dyottville Glass Works industrial complex, and multiple blocks of mixed residential\/commercial development from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries yielding over 3 million artifacts. Investigations have also discovered 10 intact Native American occupations, with the earliest site yielding a radiocarbon date of 3563 BC. The artifacts constitute the largest assemblage of Pre-contact materials found in Philadelphia and is inspiring renewed interested in and appreciation of Delaware Indian cultural heritage by stakeholders.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>To share the findings with a wider audience, ArchTam developed an innovative, all-digital, and internet-based report format as the primary means for documenting archaeological data generated by the investigations \u2013 The Digging I-95 interactive report (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diggingi95.com\">www.diggingi95.com<\/a>). ArchTam has also frequently held public outreaches displaying the excavated artifacts at neighborhood centers and events as well as producing exhibits for two area museums and operating the I-95 Archaeology Center, an on-site museum and active archaeological laboratory. The project also includes its own free professional journal \u2013 River Chronicles \u2013 which is available in print and digital formats.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Aramingo-Canal-I95.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181980\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aramingo Canal&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Museum-Display-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181981\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Museum Display&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Field-Crew-final-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181982\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Field Crew&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dyottville-Foundations-final-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181983\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dyottville Foundations&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Public-Outreach-final-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181984\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Outreach&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Moonman-Figurine-final-933x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181985\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Moon Man&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1034,"featured_media":49414,"template":"","tags":[],"city":[168],"class_list":["post-49412","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","city-philadelphia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/49412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/49412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49413,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/49412\/revisions\/49413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49412"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=49412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}