Moorefields received a $91,900 sub-grant from the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, funded through the federal Historic Preservation Fund, administered by the National Park Service to do archaeological survey work on the Moorefields site.  The grant program is designed to assist historic properties (including archaeological sites) with resiliency planning and surveys in order to help the state’s cultural resources be better prepared for future events, including storms and other natural disasters.  Moorefields qualified for the grant as property listed on National Register of Historic Places.

Moorefields is using the grant for an archaeological survey of the site.  We expect this initial survey work to provide information about where and how people lived who were enslaved by the Moores, and perhaps uncover clues about those who lived here before the Moores arrived.  This information will help inform our next steps into research about who these people were and what their lives were like.  

Moorefields has contracted with the firm of Richard Grubb & Associates to do the project’s archaeology work, which will continue through the summer with a final report due in late fall.  Later this summer we will hold a Public Archaeology Day to share this work in