At the beginning of the 18th century, New York was a small British trading colony of 12,309 people; by the century's end, its population had grown to 79,216 and it was the capital of the United States. Nowhere in this country is there an archaeological site which illustrates this explosion of civic growth as dramatically as City Hall Park.

Principal Investigator: Arthur Bankoff. Co-Principal Investigators: Tom McGovern, Neil Smith, Sophia Perdikaris. PhD Program students: Alyssa Loorya, Jene Romeo, Colin Amundsen, Matt Brown, Eliza Darling, Lizzie Martin, and George Hambrecht.