IAC has served as the cultural resource manager for multi-year, multi-phased Euroamerican (Post-Contact) archaeological investigations along Central Maine Power (CMP) transmission corridors covering 300+ miles in Maine.
The rediscovery of the burial ground has tremendous distinction as the only known African-American cemetery of its age that has been investigated through archaeology in all of New England.
Independent Archaeological Consulting (IAC) conducted multiple phases of archaeological survey for the proposed widening of the Interstate 93 from the Massachusetts border at Salem, New Hampshire, through Windham, Derry, Londonderry and into Manchester – a distance of about 20 miles. The 20-mile-long widening project for the most part follows the existing corridor but proposed to widen lanes, reconstruct exits, and expand the ROW, with the possibility of impacting archaeological sites.
The William Dinsmore Homestead is one of four sites in Windham, New Hampshire, that were aligned along Old County Road. The others are the John Dinsmore Homestead, the Misses Dinsmore Homestead, and the Towns-Hunnewell Farmstead. Each of these resources share a kinship tie, harkening back to John “Daddy” Dinsmore, who arrived from Ireland in 1723. Following a short stint in Maine, where he was captured by Indians, John1 Dinsmore settled on 60 acres in Windham.
