There were two projects conducted within the City of LeSueur, Minnesota. Both were done by Impact Services Incorporated for the Region Nine Development Commission. The first project (1991) was a Phase II investigation of an archaeological site which was to be impacted by the construction of an industrial wastewater treatment facility.

Given the nature of the artifacts found, the environmental setting in which the site was situated and the potential resources located within this setting, it appeared that the site represented a series of short-term occupations. It was recommended that additional testing be done in order to more clearly evaluate the nature of the occupations.

The results of the Phase III mitigation suggested that the pattern of occupation of the site was short-term seasonal occupations spanning several thousand years. The site offered a very specific type of resource (oolitic chert) and the area was used to prepare that chert for stone tool manufacture through thermal alteration. The kiln was constructed of cobbles of various sizes. These cobbles were used to build the walls of an oval-shaped kiln. A total of almost 4,000 artifacts were recovered from the site which has currently been destroyed by construction.

Chuck Broste and Tisha Strachan Working on an Excavation Unit at the Phase III Evaluation of the Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, 1992

Dan Zielski, Tisha Strachan and Chuck Broste Opening an Excavation Unit at the Phase III Evaluation of the Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, 1992

Tisha Strahcn, Terry Strachan, Kathy Roetzel, Dan Zielski and Richard Strachan Near the Kiln Excavation Unit at the Phase III Evaluation of the Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, 1992

Tisha Strachan, Terry Strachan, Jeff Door and Laura Kennedy Working the Kiln Excavation Unit at the Phase III Evaluation of the Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, 1992

Chuck Broste, Mark Piepho, Laura Kennedy, Brenda Green, Gretal Macdanz and Kathleen Strachan working on the Phase III Evaluation of the Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, 1992

Identified Rocks from the Kiln in Pit W8P1 at the Phase III Evaluation of the Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, 1992

2M X 3M Excavation Unit (Window 1) at the Phase III Evaluation of the Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, 1992

Finishing the Kiln Unit After Snowfall at the Phase III Evaluation of the Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, 1992

The Phase II Archaeological Investigation of a Site Within the City of LeSueur, LeSueur County, Minnesota. Richard Strachan and Kathleen Roetzel. 1991 A Phase III Mitigation of an Archaeological Site Within the Proposed Wastewater Treatment Facility, City of LeSueur, LeSueur County, Minnesota Kathleen Roetzel and Richard Strachan. 1992