Fishing stages to be restored

The Trinity Historical Society has received funding from the Fisheries Heritage Preservation Program (FHPP), to restore three fishing properties in Trinity. The FHPP, administered by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador is a program developed to assist in the preservation and presentation of the province?s fisheries heritage.

The buildings to be restored are the stages of Thomas Spurrell and Francis Toope and the slipway belonging to Boyd Coleridge. These structures are in need of restoration in order to stabilize them and ensure that they are preserved for the future.




Project Coordinator Jim Miller says there are very few fishing stages left in Trinity, adding it would be a shame to lose those that are left.

"The preservation of these community buildings is of utmost importance to the Historical Society as they tell a part of the town?s history that is not told elsewhere in the town," says Miller

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IPFW students digging into prehistoric Indiana

The land is only yards away from a practice firing range, owned by the Kosko Conservation & Sportsman, a local gun club. The same place where people recreationally practice their shot is where Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne archeology researchers believe Paleoindians killed caribou and wild turkeys with spears to survive 10,000 years ago.

To the average person who drives Fox Farm Road, it?s almost unimaginable that this plot used to be a sand dune, home to communities of Paleoindian people. The Paleoindians, who lived in North America between 11,000 and 8,000 B.C., were the founders of the American Indian cultures that were prevalent in northeast Indiana for the next 10,000 years.

It?s on that plot of land where IPFW archaeology researchers are furthering their research of this time period, allowing students to hone their excavation skills.

In the past five years, the IPFW Archaeological Survey has made quite a name for itself in Indiana.

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