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Digging Into Memories – Seneca Village Excavation

Seneca Village is a high decorated, working-class African American village before Central Park established. It went through financial damage and cultural damage when Central Park established. It has little historic records on Seneca Village. In 2008, archaeologists started excavation and found artifacts on the site. This project is to develop a landscape system based on the archaeological excavation of Seneca Village Site in Central Park. When archaeologists excavating the site, it forms paths between different old buildings in different ground level. Old buildings will be rebuild by wire-mesh structure and concrete. People can walk through the paths to visit old Seneca Village site as a museum. When new artifacts are found, a new landscape path is created. The paths have interesting relationship between benches, trees and rocks in Central Park, which also creates a dialogue between Central Park daily life to old Seneca Village memories.