Archaeologists find artifacts in St. Augustine school house [Video]

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The site of a historic school house revealed artifacts that students and teachers left behind. 

Nuns with the Sisters of St. Joseph are restoring a the St. Benedict the Moor school building in the Lincolnville community of St. Augustine.

Working around and with the contractor, archaeologists were able to scour the site on Martin Luther King Avenue. 

“It’s the oldest brick structure in Lincolnville,” St. Augustine City Archaeologist Katherine Simms said. She and her colleagues with the St. Augustine Archaeology Department dug inside and outside of the schoolhouse. Its walls were literally propped up with large metal beams at one time. 

“It was a great excavation,” Sims said. “We started working out there two years ago in 2022.”

They found all kinds of artifacts such as a glass inkwell, small …