It’s time for another Charles E. Brown presentation! Register for the Zoom Webinar https://wihist.org/CEB-May26 to join us!
Thursday, May 21, 2026
7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
The Archaeology of the Montgomery Cabin Site, 1975-2023, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Please join Dr. Robert Sasso of UW-Parkside as he gives us a retrospective of almost 50 years of excavations at the Montgomery Cabin site.
The Montgomery (or Indian Spring) site (47KN0363) is located in Petrifying Springs County Park, along the Pike River, Somers Township, Kenosha County. Its historic importance lies in it representing the earliest known Euro-American residence in the county, dating to circa 1834. The site area as recognized today actually includes four additional residential structures from the early to mid-nineteenth century, and also includes multiple pre-contact Native American occupations. In this talk, I will discuss the site’s history; the history of archaeological investigations at the site, first by the Kenosha County Archaeological Society (KCAS) in the mid 1970s and more recently by UW-Parkside and the Kenosha Public Museum between 2013 and 2023, led by myself and Dan Joyce; artifacts from the site; and the collective findings that represent what we have learned from all of this work. In addition to understanding more about the houses and their occupants’ lives, another key aspect of site history is looting recorded by the KCAS during their 1970s excavations, as well as what we’ve discovered about the KCAS’s efforts to prevent further damage to the site.
