The Dorchester Site is a 15^th century Iroquoian site, just east of Dorchester, Ont., overlooking the Thames River. Long known to local people and archaeologists alike, the site was fully excavated by TMHC in 2004. Professional archaeologists and university students together discovered not one but two exquisitely preserved palisaded villages. Hearths and ash pits in houses and some enormous garbage features suggested that Aboriginal peoples hunted and fished along the Thames River. Probably they also grew crops in the sandy soils around their villages. Residential development at the Dorchester Site illustrates that we are all still attracted to the same features of the landscape that drew peoples of the past. The Thames and its surroundings remain a focus for habitation after all these years.