Connecticut Department of Transportation

Ephraim Sprague House Archaeological Site

A Time Capsule from the 18th Century

Sources of Additional Information

    Cross-mended white salt-glazed stoneware creamer

    A creamer, one of numerous cross-mended tea-related artifacts from the Sprague site.

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  • Deane, Samuel. The New England Farmer, or Georgical Dictionary. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1790. The 1822 edition is avalailable online.
  • Harper, Ross K. " 'Ancient and Ordinary': Archaeology and Changing Perceptions of Connecticut’s 18th-Century Architecture." Connecticut Preservation News 32, No. 3 (2009): 12-13.
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  • Harper, Ross K., and Mary Harper. Report: Phase II Intensive Archaeological Survey and Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery Program. The c. 1705 Ephraim Sprague Homestead Site (Site No. 1-12). Storrs, CT: Archaeological and Historical Services, Inc., 2007. Available at the Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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  • Sprague, Warren V. Sprague Families in America. Rutland: Tuttle Company, 1913.

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