ARCHEOLOGY

In October 1999 the late Esther Anderson, who lived on West Street in Sheldonville displayed a 4X4 inch block of amethyst stone, which she stated was given to her by a representative of the Bardon-Trimont Company after she complained about damage to her property from a blast from the company at Green Street. A small tree in front of her house was knocked down, she claimed, and a rug in a second floor room was moved and required a professional to reset it, for which Bardon-Trimont paid. The violet crystals of the amethyst were huge, some of the largest recalled. She was told the deposit was struck during an excavation on the Barden-Trimont property. JJM