Mitchelville’s First Church
Search for Mitchelville’s First Church: After using Ground Penetrating Radar to narrow down where the first Church or Praise House might have been, Binghamton Students spent the summer of 2018 excavating in the park.
Remote Sensing Begins
Binghamton University Students take first Ground Penetrating Radar scans of the park. They were hoping to find evidence of the first church or Praise House.
1980’s The Chicora Foundation
In the 1980’s The Chicora Foundation did the first archaeology work in what would become Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park : This is a photograph from the original archaeology showing the base of a chimney.