News article on community park spring cleaning event, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Ruling paves way for proposed nuke waste site ■ Connecticut tone archaeological artifacts, but it lacks scientific integrity and commission rules represents isolated finds that fail to provide substantive ' informa­ that Intended site tion about the area. of* a-iiuclear-waste .. “We- -expect-■ that-the-^^ proposed storage facility has undertaking will have no effect upon the state’s 'archaeological no archaeological heritage,” John, Shannahan. direc­ tor and state Historic Preserva­ value tion Officer, wrote to Connecticut Yankee. ASSOCIATED PRESS The.letter, which was released by the company, reaches the same HADDAM, Conn. — The in­ conclusion as an archaeological tended site of a nuclear waste review paid ' for by Connecticut storage facility that has raised the Yankee. ire of activists has no archaeologi­ cal value, according to the Con­ Smith' eventually bought Ms necticut Historical‘Commission. freedom -and became a wealthy An amateur historian and an entrepreneur around the time of eighth-generation descendant of the American Revolution. tSth-century slave Venture Smith Amateur historian Douglas sued to halt construction of the fa­ Jones of Essex has testified that cility on a property they say is the several foundations for houses site — or is near tte location — of have been found in the 500-acre Smith’s ancestral home. Connecticut Yankee property. His­ 'They said it would defile the torical records, including a 'narra­ 100-acre family farm. tive Smith dictated in 1798,'indi­ The commission says the site cate he owned as many as five contains some prehistoric and his- houses in the area.

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