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The week our crew found a 19th-century homestead foundation while clearing a lot in Asheville, and the developer just wanted it gone.
We were prepping a site for a new house, just outside the city limits. My saw hit something that wasn't wood or rock. We stopped and started brushing dirt away, and there it was: a full stone foundation, about 20 by 30 feet, with a clear hearth spot. We called the county historical society. The developer showed up an hour later and told us to 'fill it in and forget it,' said every day of delay cost him money. We refused to just bury it. It turned into a whole thing with permits and surveys. It felt bad to be the reason a project got held up, but worse to think about paving over a piece of local history. Has anyone else had a client get angry over finding something you knew was important?
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john5065mo ago
Heard about a guy who found old pottery shards on a job site. His boss told him to toss them in the dumpster with the drywall scraps.
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parker_hall55mo ago
I read about a construction crew in Virginia that hit a Native American burial site. The company just paved right over it to avoid delays. Honestly, it makes me sick how often history gets destroyed for a deadline. Those pottery shards could have been from a settlement hundreds of years old. Tbh, that boss should have stopped work and called someone who knows about that stuff. It's pure laziness to just treat it like trash.
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averyc945mo ago
I mean, the boss had a schedule to keep and a budget to hit.
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