MACON, Ga. — Families gathered in East Macon this weekend at Fort Hawkins for a hands-on journey into the past.

The fort hosted its 20th annual Archaeology Day, giving visitors the chance to get up close with local history.

From artifact identification and pottery making to frontier games for kids, the event offered something for all ages.

Historians were on hand to explain the significance of different finds, and guests could even bring in their own artifacts to be verified or appraised.

“Finding these artifacts enables us to see that, hey, they did use red clay pots, or they created mosaic tiles — or, as you can hear, hammering steel and forging metal into usable artifacts that people might find hundreds of years from now,” Krystle Freeman, interim Fort Hawkins Foundation Chair sai

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