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  • March

    Corps employees help find cremains among Camp Fire debris

    In November 2018, the Camp Fire decimated the rural town of Paradise, California, becoming the

  • September

    Grave markers located at the cemetery on Carlisle Barracks show where the remains of two Arapaho children were located and disinterred in August 2017. The marked area around the buried remains represents the excavation area.

    Corps helps return Native American remains

    A team of experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently helped return the remains of two children to their Northern Arapaho tribe. The children had died at Carlisle Indian industrial School in the 1880s and were buried in a cemetery on what is now Carlisle Barracks, in Pennsylvania.

  • November

    5 cool features at historic ranch near Isabella Dam project

    Corps archaeologists recently examined several cultural resources and a historic property on a survey of land south of the auxiliary dam construction area. The historic property is a ranch complex with some features dating back to the late 1800’s, remnants of early settlers in California’s southern central valley

  • August

    Steve Pappas, ECORP Consulting field director, answers questions from members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District regulatory team during a visit to an archaeological dig near El Dorado Hills, Calif., July 31, 2014. ECORP has been contracted to help research and catalog historic sites on this project site.

    Sacramento District archaeologist helps preserve “layer cake” of history

    Over 1,900 acres of Northern California property located between Folsom and El Dorado Hills is like “a layer cake of modern history,” according to Erin Hess, an archaeologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District Regulatory Division. “This area includes everything from remnants of placer mining, hydraulic mining, dredge mining, dairy operations, roadside inns from the 1800s all the way up to Cold War-era missile research facilities,” said Hess.