From staff reports
Ashley Nagle is a Master of Arts student in applied archaeology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She will be presenting the results of her excavations and survey of Modoc City at the upcoming meeting of the North Fork Chapter 29 Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 at the Presbyterian Church Education Building located at the corner of White and Main Street in Brookville.
Communities sometimes hastily arise and then also quickly disappear. Such is the story of Modoc City, an oil boom town in Butler County.
In 2022 archaeologist Nagle through the study of old newspapers and follow-up field work using ground-penetrating radar confirmed the location of the vanished town. Her interest in documenting the community and associated artifact finds became the main focus of her master’s thesis.
For more information, contact Ken Burkett at (814) 849-0077.