The Sprigg Site is located within the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois.  In anticipation of restoration activities at this site, Fever River Research conducted archaeological excavations in both 1997 and 2003 at this site.  In 1997, the investigations focused on that area of the site adjacent to the house.  Later, in 2003, the investigations focused on the rear yard in anticipation of the reconstruction of a privy and carriage barn.  The investigations documented the evolution of the house and surrounding yardscape, and have resulted in the recovery of a wide range of artifacts from a variety of encapsulated middens and subsurface features (particularly cisterns and privy pits).  The artifacts recovered during these investigations not only document the lifeways of the nineteenth century occupants at this site, but allow for some relatively new interpretations of the Sprigg Site.  Based on these investigations, the Sprigg Site appears to initially have been occupied earlier than previously thought, and the early occupant at this site conducted a variety of metalworking and woodworking activities within a building located along the rear alley.