During construction of a home addition on S. St. Asaph Street, a tremendous quantity of broken redware ceramic artifacts were discovered. Due to the City's archaeological ordinance, the contractor contacted the City Archaeologists. Working quickly, the archaeologists and volunteers recovered thousands of redware fragments which had broken during firing at the Piercy Pottery Site nearby on South Washington Street. This "waster pile" contains handmade pottery by Henry Piercy, who had relocated here from Philadelphia after the Revolutionary War.