Luke Pecoraro, alum, long-term efforts to locate slave dwellings at Drayton Hall

Alum, Luke Pecoraro, hired as the first full-time director of archaeology and collections. “Pecoraro’s archaeological experience in both traditional fieldwork and technology-based imaging at Drayton Hall as part of a long-term effort to locate where slave dwellings existed on the property and to discern how these and other long-disappeared spaces inform our understanding of the Draytons, those they enslaved, and others. This includes the Native Americans who lived on the site before European settlement, as well as the convict laborers and formerly enslaved people who worked in the phosphate mines that existed on the property after the Civil War and into the early 20th century.”