Christine Davis Consultants, Inc.

It’s 1992 and Chris and CDC have grown into their first formal office space at U-PARC, University of Pittsburgh’s Applied Research Center campus located north of Pittsburgh in Harmarville. One of CDCs big projects that year was the Rice’s Landing Historic District (Key No. 097660) National Register Nomination, which was completed for the Steel Heritage Task Force. Chris undertook the survey for the district, prepared the paperwork, and shepherded the nomination through the ...listing process. Rice’s Landing, located along the Monongahela River in Greene County, is an important early river port and later industrial center. The Historic District includes remnants of the Monongahela River Navigation System Lock No. 6, company houses once owned by the H. C. Frick Coke Company, the Dilworth Mine, the Excelsior Pottery, and the W. A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop, along with residential buildings constructed in Late Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman styles. (The Foundry and Machine Shop is now a really cool museum and one of the best preserved early small industrial machine shops in the nation!) Rice’s Landing Historic District was listed in the National Register on December 24, 1992 a nice way to ring in the New Year! See more

The next post in our 35th Anniversary Blast from the Past series finds us in 1985... the year of New Coke and "We are the World. This was also the year Christine graduated from University of Pittsburgh's College of General Studies with a degree in Anthropology - and took home the award for the CGS Outstanding Student of the Year! This volume of the student news magazine "Night Times" in June 1985 features Christine and details the award. She even made the front page! Later this same year Christine started Christine Davis Consultants, Inc. and really got her career rolling.

To honor our 35th year doing archaeology: a blast from the past! This photo is CDC’s own Christine Davis back in 1980 several years before she founded CDC in 1985. The photo was taken during excavations at the Reeves & Beales Site (aka Blaw Knox Site) (36AL19) located near our office along the Allegheny River. The site is a stratified Woodland and Contact period Native American village that included LeCroy, St. Albans, and Snyder projectile points, stone chipping debitage, ...as well as glass beads and historic period ceramics. In the photo, a young Christine is preparing a map for an open excavation block. It’s fun to see that archaeology doesn’t really look all that different today! A big thank you to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for the photo. The Carnegie sponsored this work at the Blaw Knox Site under the direction of Dick George. As you can see, Christine and the Carnegie go way back - Christine continues to be one of their research associates!

We’re back in the saddle! As Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region begin to re-open from our COVID quarantine CDC’s crew and office staff have slowly emerged from their hibernation. Over the last couple of weeks we have been back in the office for part of the week as well as back in the field. As you can see face-coverings are now all the rage amongst our archaeologists. Emily is seen here in a classy black scarf, and Kaitlin is sporting a petroglyph bandana which of course has all of us envious! With our new safety measures in place everyone is excited to be getting back to business and move into the summer field season!