Published by The Ridgefield Press.com, written by Macklin Reid, Sunday 10th June 2012.
Hands dirty, using a metal detector and a garden shovel in the dark earth, Garrett Silliman searched a Main Street building site for artifacts left from the Battle of Ridgefield — where his great, great, great, great, great-grandfather had been one of the commanders of colonial forces fighting the British.
“Gold Selleck Silliman,” he said. “He went by Selleck.”
Mr. Silliman, of Georgia-based Terminus Archeological Research, conducted five days of systematic investigation at593 Main Street, a one-acre property with an empty 1950s house on it — and a recent approval for 16 units under the state’s affordable housing law, 8-30g.
– Taken from Article
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