Dr. Nick Honerkamp, Director of the Jeffery L. Brown Institute of
Archaeology and Acting Head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology,
and Geography, received $1000 from Tusculum College to conduct
archaeological studies and testing at the Doak House Museum in Greenville,
Tennessee.

The Doak House was originally the home of Reverend Samuel Doak. Rev. Doak
was the founder of Tusculum College, which was the first college in
Tennessee and only the 28th college founded in the United States.  When the
Doak family’s descendants moved out of the house, they donated it to the
nearby school, and the house has been turned into a museum to demonstrate
how it would have appeared when Rev. Doak lived there.

During this summer, Dr. Honerkamp and student researchers from UTC’s summer
archaeological field school will take part in fieldwork at Doak House.  This
research will include setting up a grid system and digging systematic test
pits around the Doak House museum, consulting historic photographs of the
house to determine its original structure, and searching for subsurface
signatures and early fence lines.  After the initial research, Dr. Honerkamp
and the students will take part in six weeks of laboratory analysis and
report preparation.

Congratulations to Dr. Honerkamp!  The study of Doak House will provide
valuable applied experience to students taking part in the research.