Archeologists investigating the historic Overfield Tavern Museum in Troy have found more than 18,500 artifacts, ranging from ceramic shards to early coins.
Those artifacts offer a look into life on the Ohio frontier 200 years ago. Animal bones and plant seeds provide insight into Ohioan’s diets, collections of buttons and straight pins point to where women mended and sewed clothes, and pottery fragments can help researchers piece together international trade networks.
“This is the kind of detail that can help us restore and interpret the tavern to the public in a way that we have not been able to do before,” said Chris Manning, the executive director of the Troy Historical Society,…