The Collier Lodge Project
The Collier Lodge project is a cooperative project with the Kankakee Valley Historical Society .
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We have been working at the Collier Lodge Site, a historic hunting lodge on the Kankakee River with the official Indiana State Site Number of 12 Pr 36. The site has a Removal Period occupation and prehistoric occupations as well.
As always, this is a public project and visitors and volunteers are welcome. Contact the Kankakee Valley Historical Society for more information about visiting or volunteering. We will typically be at the site between 8:30 - 3:30 Monday through Thursday.
Graduate or undergraduate students wishing to work at Collier Lodge can obtain academic credit through the Notre Dame Summer Session program. Please contact Mark Schurr or the Notre Dame Summer Session for more info.
If you have prior excavatoin experience, we would love to have you involved!
Results of the first three season at the site (from 2003 throuh 2005) are available in a report that you can view or download as a PDF (2.5 Meg). Click on the image to view, or right-click and "Save Target As" to download.
The report on the 2003 - 2005 seasons.
If you are intersted in the history of what we have done at the site, you can download copies of the excavation plans from each year and a PDF of Powerpoint presentations that show the highlights of each season (the presentations range in size from 1.6 to 1.9 Megs). The excavation plans always begin with a summary of what was accomplished in the preceding year.
The archaeological site at Collier Lodge is now on the National Register of Historic Places!
For a complete overview of everything that has been done at the site through the years, and an explanation of why the site is so important, you can read the nomination (PDF) to the National Register of Historic Places that was approved by the National Park Service on December 24, 2009.
You will need Adobe Reader to view the files. If you don't have it, it available for free from Adobe.
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2007 |
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2006 |
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