Hidden history uncovered in dig on South Farms site
By Paul Wood
Friday September 26, 2008
Robin Scholz /The News-Gazette
Alyssa Sullivan, left, and Sruti Ekkirala look Wednesday at a cup that was put back together from pieces of pottery found on the former Simon Percival homestead site during a visit to an archaeological dig on the UI South Farms. The cup is from the mid-1800s.
CHAMPAIGN – Just before the Civil War, Simon and Catherine Percival spent a decade scratching a farm out of treeless prairie south of Champaign.
For decades, their homestead lay under a horse pasture in the University of Illinois South Farms. What's left of it, mostly a cellar, was being dug up and cataloged Thursday by a trio of UI archaeologists.
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