Minnie Puckett

ID: 6182 ~ Source: Photograph courtesy of the descendants of Minnie Puckett, and her great great granddaughter Givonna Hymel-Lumpkins. ~ Date: Unknown, ca. 1920s

This file appears in: The Puckett Household: 1930s Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood

The Puckett Household: 1930s Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood

By D. Ryan Gray, edited by Kathryn A. O’Dwyer & Lauren Smith

In 2013, archaeological consulting firm Earth Search, Inc., excavated a block of the Melpomene neighborhood originally bounded by South Liberty, Erato, Clio, and Howard/LaSalle Streets. Earth Search identified brick foundations and artifacts from a…