Michigan State students discover traces of school's first observatory built in 1881
The foundation of Michigan State's first observatory was discovered this summer after construction workers, drilling hammock posts, hit something unusually hard underground.
When Stacey Camp, an anthropology professor at Michigan State University, learned there was a hard, impenetrable surface underground north of campus, she assumed it was just a large rock.
But historic maps hinted at something bigger. After careful digging, her team of campus archeologists that once belonged to the university's original
