In 2011, ACC, Inc. conducted survey, testing, and data recovery investigations on a tract of land near the town of Richlands in Onslow County, North Carolina. One of the sites identified during these efforts (31ON1767) was ultimately determined to have been related to the Wood family (more information on these investigations here). ACC, Inc. donated the cultural material recovered from investigations at this site to the Onslow County Museum, located in Richlands.
The fully-cataloged artifact assemblage was handed over to the Onslow County Museum Artifacts Collections Manager, Patricia Hughey. The material is expected to be integrated into the rotation of museum exhibits, as a collection that represents the material remains of some of Onslow County’s earliest European settlers, and to demonstrate the life of an ordinary farming family at the turn of the 19th century.
