- Title
- Our State
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- Date
- April 2000
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Our State
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Mystery of tlie
Looking for elites in molts, historical documents, and dirt ,
archaeologists mock at solring an
I S/h-centnry /tnzzle on the grounds oj Tryon Palace.
by Sheila Tnrnage
•it Tryon Palace in 1770, chev opened on a place ol
povvei — i lie- home ol the colony's royal governoi
and the seal of North Carolina's colonial
government. When the palace gates swing open
today, as they do for about 80.000 visitors each year,
they open on a meticulously reconstructed 27-room
palace — and on an 18th-century mystery that
confounds modern investigators.
At the heart of the mystery? The palace's missing
garden.
The clues to its whereabouts? Three contradictory
18th-century maps, all prepared by the same hand,
that ol Claude Joseph Sauthier.
The sleuths? Tryon Palace archaeologist Patricia
Samford and Dr. Charles R. Kwen. associate
professor of anthropology at Hast Carolina
University.
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Here's what we know. Gov William Tryon built
the North Carolina palace, using plans bv architect
|ohn Hawks. One revolution later, the royal
50 Our Suie April 2000