GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – It’s at Bayshore County Park, where ‘Rockwood Lodge’ once stood.
It was the Packers training facility, before burning down in 1950.
What lies beneath the surface, may shed light on pieces of the team’s history.
“It was all in the newspapers, that this was kind of a mysterious fire that happened.”
Kevin Cullen, Deputy Director at the Neville Public Museum, tells FOX 11 last September they held an event called, ‘Parkelogy’.
It gave the public a chance to dig for pieces of the building.
“Those tiny bits of artifacts we found brick, stone and metal nails. So, we know we had a structure.”
The findings are now being preserved in the Neville’s collection room.
Cullen says their findings each hold a story captured at Rockwood Lodge decades ago.
“This is a plate serving, and here is this piece of ceramic that is the same pattern of the plate, that some of the famous Packers ate from. Hackers brick company, which is a local brick company; literally we’re holding a fragment of the building.”
Using a blueprint, he says they were able to pin-point where some of the artifacts were in the building.
“This is also probably the bowl of a toilet, which is interesting, with that we know we were probably in the women’s locker room area.”
That even includes clues to what may have ignited that ‘mysterious’ fire.
“So, it could have been something like this that sparked a fire, it was known that the electrical system wasn’t great.”
In what Cullen says, has become sacred pieces of the Packer’s long-standing history.
“I think the best part was that the public was there to find these artifacts.”
