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The foundation of Michigan State's first observatory was discovered this summer after construction workers, drilling hammock posts, hit something unusually hard underground.
The foundation of Michigan State's first observatory was discovered this summer after construction workers, drilling hammock posts, hit something unusually hard underground.
M Stacey Camp, director of the Campus Archaeology Program at Michigan State University, said she has "big plans," including building a plexiglass cover over of a 142-year-old observatory unearthed by students in a clearing near a student residence hall and having it nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.
Michigan State workers installing a hammock thought they had uncovered a large rock but used old maps to determine what they had struck.
Michigan State workers installing a hammock thought they had uncovered a large rock but used old maps to determine what they had struck.