In cooperation with Albion Environmental, Inc., we've been conducting excavations at Santa Clara University during Fall 2004 and Spring 2005. So far, we've discovered features associated with Mission Santa Clara, and a late 19th-century German community in Santa Clara. Read more by clicking the link above....
Mission era stone wall, in the process of being recorded by Kimberly Wooten (on loan to Past Forward, Inc.),
with Stella D'Oro and Matt Brickley of Albion Environmental, Inc.
Past Forward, Inc. recently nominated the site of the first Japanese American colony in the United States to the National Register of Historic Places. The site was declared a California Historical Landmark (monument pictured to the left) in 1969.
Wilder Ranch State Park, Santa Cruz
In July 2009, Past Forward staff worked with many volunteers to excavate a residential deposit associated with the historic Wilder Ranch State Park. Materials from the excavation are now being used by a graduate student as the subject of a master's thesis.