Caroline Gardiner, Veteran’s Curation Program “What’s the date for our coin?” “1790s.” “They have the same one.” In 2021, the Veterans Curation Program (VCP) in Alexandria received a 260-box collection from the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Norfolk District’s Gathright Dam/Lake Moomaw project. The Dam is located in west-central Virginia about 40 miles from Staunton. The area’s history covers …

Web Editor’s Note: The Curator’s Curio is a quarterly research brief highlighting interesting or unusual finds from archaeological collections throughout Virginia. Tatiana Niculescu, Alexandria Archaeology In 1977, archaeologists working on the 500 block of King Street in Alexandria were racing the clock and the bulldozers to recover the remains of the port city’s past. Deep in the bowels of a …