Students and faculty from Wayne State University’s anthropology department will take part in Corktown’s annual Historic Home and Garden Tour on Sunday, June 1.  

The group will discuss its ongoing excavation project at the historic neighborhood’s Workers’ Row House and present artifacts unearthed during recent digs. 

The Workers’ Row House is a working-class tenement built in 1849 that was home to generations of immigrants who traveled to Detroit seeking a better life.

“This project has really revealed the way of life for many working-class families in 19th century Detroit,” says Tom Killion, anthropology professor and director of the Workers’ Row House project. “These artifacts — from milk and whiskey bottles to toy fragments — each tell a story about the families who lived here and about the city as a whole.”  

The Corktown Historic Home and Garden Tour runs from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 1. The Workers’ Row House is located at 1419 Sixth Street, Detroit.