Workers found the foundation while installing hammocks.
Michigan State University's campus archeology team at the observatory foundation dig site. Left to right: Mac Stevens, Kelly Sullivan, Morgan Manuszak, campus archeologist Benjamin Akey.
Michigan State University archaeology crew member and senior Morgan Manuszak uses a screen to sift through materials found in soil at the dig site for the university's first observatory. Some of the artifacts recovered in proximity to the observatory foundation. Top row : Two partial iron square-cut nails, an iron eye bolt screw, and six shards of flat glass, which are likely from window pane. Bottom row: Several red brick fragments, which likely represent the remains of the observatory's brick walls. The exterior of the first campus observatory at today's Michigan State University, circa 1900.
A college catalog from 1898-99 includes the facility, the article adds, while a civil engineering report in 1915 mentions a facility vandalism attack from which only the telescope survived. No other records unearthed at the time showed what happened to the observatory. The telescope itself was found in the mid-1970s in the campus physics-astronomy building and is on display today at MSU's Abrams Planetarium.
Akey said the new facility find would allow MSU's archeology students valuable on-campus experience to practice their craft at the university, which was founded in 1855 before the Civil War began. At the time the observatory was first active, MSU was known as State Agricultural College; it acquired its modern-day name in 1964.
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