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Celebrating artifacts at the Mound House

By Nathan

The Friends of the Mound House will be holding a celebration of the new artifact preservation center at the Mound House with a fundraiser and presentation this Saturday. The free event will run from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and will include hors d'oeuvres, a singer and a brief presentation from Mound House Museum Registrar Breanna Vaccaro on the development of the artifact preservation center and laboratory, and its future. The Town of Fort Myers Beach, which operates the Mound House, began work on the preservation center in December of 2024 in order to preserve and research thousands of artifacts that were found around the property during excavations that began in 2002. Many of the ...

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