Dear Birders,
The next meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club (DVOC) is this Thursday, February 21st, at 7:30 PM at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA. Details at www.dvoc.org .
Everyone is invited to attend. Visitors are always welcome.
Featured speaker: Joel Fry, Curator of Bartram Gardens: Alexander Wilson and his history at Bartram Gardens
Bartram�s Garden is one of only a handful of identified prehistoric locations in Philadelphia. Archaeological evidence has been found that the Garden was occupied seasonally by Native Americans as early as 3,000 BCE. Objects found during digs include stone artifacts, flakes from tool production, and fire-cracked rock.� �Beginning in 1648, a 1,000 acre tract of land that included Bartram�s Garden was settled as an outpost on a New Sweden colony on the Schuylkill River. This land, known as �Aronameck,� was eventually divided along natural boundaries and creek valleys, and further small clearings developed in the later 17th Century, including a piece which become the site of John Bartram�s farm and garden.
Regards,
Phil Witmer
Delaware Valley Ornithological Club
Vice President
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