Sarah Friday's 1810 Granby Drawing
Small buildings and town well
Along with the courthouse, Granby also added new buildings for lawyers. One of those law offices is Granby’s only surviving building. It was rolled on logs to Lexington, where it became that new town’s Post Office. Below is a photo of this late 18th century Law Office, now sitting on the grounds of the Lexington Museum.
Wells are exciting opportunities for archaeologists because they tend to have interesting items at their bottom. Our Granby dig team didn't have the resources to excavate a deep well, but we were always on the lookout for one. The 1790 newspaper ad, for what we believe was Samuel Johnston's future property, stated that the town well was on that property. Wells don't last forever, and the well that Sarah Friday has in her drawing was nearer to the town square, in a vacant lot of today's Riverland Park neighborhood. The most efficient way to locate a well like this would be with ground penetrating radar (GPR). Unfortunately, without any funding for our dig project, that was not something we could afford. So, there are two Granby wells still waiting to be found. Below are photos of colonial period wells in Colonial Williamsburg.
The Town Well site: Status: Archaeology is possible in the Riverland Park neighborhood (Click here to see this location on a map)
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