By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News

The Livingston County Historical Society will meet Thursday to learn about the archaeological dig of the historic Morris House.

The home was built in 1836 in rural Cornell by Henry Morris, a Black Hawk War veteran from Ohio. He later died from milk sickness.

Connie Kostelc, who has had a big part in the dig of the site, explains a little bit about the cabin in the current day.

“The cabin actually had been moved from its original location. It was a larger building. The wood had been removed from the original building and made into a smaller cabin and moved to a different location. So, not exactly the first location it was in, but we still have timbers from it and we have saved those to use later,” Kostelc said.

She also described why they chose to dig from the area.

“We were looking to find just knowledge of the area. Unlike people who are looking for pirate treasure, when you’re looking for that sort of thing, you’re looking for treasure, as such, but when you’re looking for archaeological items, you’re basically looking to see what kind of knowledge it is. So, you just want to know what happened over there and find out what sort of things were going on. So, we collected items, we shaved it off with just trowels and shovels and do it as carefully as you sift through everything, and you catalogue them. So, there’s actually several different steps. We just actually  finished cataloguing everything just a couple weeks ago.

The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Pontiac City Council Chambers. This meeting is open to the public.