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Southern Connecticut State University conducted its first year of excavations at the Henry Whitfield State Museum in Guilford, Connecticut in July, 2018. This research was a continuation of nearly fifty years of intermittent archaeological research at the Whitfield Museum property. The 2018 field season was spent exploring a previously uninvestigated locus. While we did find some evidence of 17th, 18th, and 19th century activities at this locus, the most exciting finds were related to the neocolonial revival of the museum property in the first half of the 20th century. In addition to a general report on findings from the 2018 excavations, we explore the historical context of the Whitfield House in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially its perceived emblematic association with colonial English descendant communities in light of the period’s social anxieties about immigration, shifting racial dynamics, and economic and religious change.