The Past Revealed: Archaeology at the Bray School

Published: Dec. 30, 2013, 11 a.m.

Tantalizing new research points to an impossible conclusion: the Reconstruction may have overlooked an original 18th-century building. More remarkable still is the possibility that it may have housed Virginia\u2019s first school for the education of black children: the Bray School. Archaeologist Mark Kostro details the story the soil tells as his team hunts for the [\u2026]