ARCHAEOLOGY SURVEY IN WAVERLY

Updated at March 20, 2007 17:29

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 is the day set for an archaeological survey in Waverly, Missouri. A joint project of the Missouri Valley College’s Department of Anthropology, Waverly Citizens for Progress, and Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation, the survey is being conducted by a team headed by Dr. Tim Baumann of Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri. Waverly is the hometown of Confederate General Joseph Orville Shelby, and a prime target of the survey is to locate General Shelby’s home, which was destroyed during the Civil War.

For more information, contact Mike Duncan at 660-837-3398, or Elizabeth Keen, Marketing Associate for Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation, at 314-361-4925.

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