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The Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Branch (NREAB) at Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ) directed JMA (John Milner Associates, Inc.), as a subcontractor of EDAW, Inc., to undertake an investigation of 50 locations identified by Silverthron (n.d.). The Silverthorn (n.d.) survey provides a baseline for historic occupations on Silverthorne study of house sites on the Guadalcanal portion of MCBQ. This un dated survey shows the locations of aboveground historic resources (farmsteads,...
Jobs in American Archaeology
Jobs in American Archaeology is a project that looks at some of the job conditions of archaeologists in the United States. The project looks at data from 1999 to present.
Jordan's Journey (44PG302)
The sites associated with the early 17th-century settlement known as Jordan’s Journey were located at Jordan’s Point near the confluence of the James and Appomatox rivers in Prince George’s County, Virginia. The property was initially occupied by Weyanoke Indians, one of the groups that formed the Powhatan chiefdom. About 1620, Samuel Jordan, his wife, Cecily, her two daughters, and their adult male servants took up residence at Jordan’s Point; this occupation is probably archaeological site...
King's Reach (18CV83)
King’s Reach (18CV83), part of the plantation known as “St. Leonard,” is a tobacco plantation homelot site occupied from 1690 until 1711 in Calvert County, Maryland. The site is located on the grounds of the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum (JPPM) and is associated with a nearby quarter (18CV84) and large tobacco barn (18CV85). King’s Reach is probably the home of Richard Smith, Jr., a wealthy colonist with close ties to the Calvert family. Documentary evidence suggests that Smith probably...
Maintaining Elements That Are Efficient by Design: What's Already Green About Our Historic Buildings (Legacy 09-456)
This document is intended to help Cultural Resources Managers (CRMs), architects, and engineers understand the existing green features of historic buildings and use those features optimally in adaptive reuse projects that are aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reaching sustainability goals.
Mattapany (18ST390)
Mattapany (18ST390) was the 17th-century home of Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore and Proprietor of Maryland, as well as the location of the colony’s main weapons magazine. The site, once part of a 1200-acre manor, is located near the mouth of the Patuxent River aboard what is today the Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Although documentary evidence indicates that Europeans had established a presence on the property by 1637, it appears that 18ST390 was first occupied around 1663, when...
The Military Heritage Guidebook (Legacy 03-196)
This guidebook and its accompanying materials describe historic sites important to American military heritage. Its accompanying military heritage maps highlight historic sites associated with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force.
National Register Supplemental Archaeological Investigations of Seven Archaeological Sites, Fort Lee (FL1998.001)
Additional archaeological investigations were conducted on seven archaeological sites identified and recommended as eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places by MAAR Associates, Inc. Based on the additional investigations conducted by Gray & Pape, Inc., the following archaeological sites are recommended as not meeting the criteria of eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places: 44PG179, a multicomponent site, and 44PG278, a 1917 surface trash...
Nationwide Context and Evaluation Methodology for Farmstead and Ranch Historic Sites and Historic Archaeological Sites on DoD Property (Legacy 17-837)
This project developed a methodology for efficiently identifying the best examples of historic farmstead sites, and also those sites that are least likely to be deemed eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. It details testing the applicability of the methodology to regions across the country. Regional historic contexts were created to assist in the determination of “typical” farmsteads.
Naval District Washington, Section 110 Surveys, Anacostia Annex, Potomac Annex and US Naval Observatory (2013.047)
This project contains excavation photographs, artifact analysis methods, catalog codes, and artifact inventories for sites identified during the Section 110 Surveys of the Anacostia Annex (now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling), Potomac Annex, and the US Naval Observatory, Naval District Washington, Washington D.C.
Old Chapel Field (44ST233)
The Old Chapel Field site (18ST233) is part of an early Jesuit settlement located south of St. Mary’s City in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. St. Inigoes Manor, as the settlement was known historically, was in Jesuit hands by 1637. St. Inigoes served as their mission’s headquarters and home plantation throughout the 17th century. In addition, a fort was built there by 1637, in an effort to protect the fledgling colony from naval attack. This fort was large enough to accommodate the local population...
Patuxent Point (18CV271)
The Patuxent Point site (18CV271) was the domestic core of an approximately 100-acre tobacco plantation occupied from c.1658 through the 1690s in Calvert County, Maryland. Excavations at the site revealed an earthfast dwelling, borrow pits, an ash-filled pit, middens, post holes, post molds, and eighteen human graves. Patuxent Point is situated approximately 800 feet east of the Compton site (18CV279), and their relationship to each other is still being investigated. The Patuxent Point site...
Phase I and Phase II Investigations, MCB Training Areas, Quantico (QU2011.001)
This project contains artifact photographs, and field photographs with accompanying photograph logs, detailing multiple sites located at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.
Phase I Archaeological Investigation, 44HT27, Fort Monroe (FM2005.002)
The Environmental Office of the Directorate of Public Works retained John Milner Associates, Inc. (JMA), to undertake an archaeological survey of the Fort Monroe installation, Hampton, Virginia. The 568 acre project area contains Fort Monroe, a third-system seacoast fortification and surrounding land. The archaeological investigations were undertaken to assist Fort Monroe personnel to comply with Section 110 of the National Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The survey project reviewed...
Phase I archaeological Investigation, Qualification Training Range, Fort Lee (FL2010.002)
Fort Lee Cultural Resources Program staff conducted a Phase I archaeological investigation for the Qualification Training Range (QTR) on Fort Lee in Prince George County, Virginia. Based on historic maps, current topographic data, environmental surveys and visual inspections it was determined that much of the area is poorly drained, low-lying soil. Consequently a low probability shovel testing investigation was conducted. During the course of this survey the remnants of a stone and brick pile...
Phase I Archaeological Investigations at Fort A. P. Hill
This project includes materials produced as part of Phase I archaeological investigations at multiple sites at Fort A. P. Hill conducted by Mid-Atlantic Archaeological Research. The materials in this project are primarily field notes, reports and draft artifact inventories. Most of the materials are divided by archaeological site or investigation area.
Phase I Investigation of 27 Acres in EOD Area, Fort A. P. Hill
This project contains black and white photographs from a phase I investigation of 27 Acres in an EOD at Fort A. P. Hill. Photographs are organized onto three separate resource pages.
Phase I Investigation of Parade Ground and Continental Park Loci 1-19, Fort Monroe (FM2005.001)
Panamerican Consultants, Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Fort Detrick, Maryland, conducted a Phase I archaeological survey at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. Occupying the north side of the entrance to the James River, the fort’s location from the initial arrival of European settlers onward was seen as critical to local and regional defense. Fort Monroe was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and listed on the...
Phase I Investigation of Shoot House and Urban Assault Compound, Fort A.P. Hill
Paciulli, Simmons & Associates, Ltd., requested a Phase IA cultural resources survey associated with the planned Shoot House and Urban Assault Compound, Fort A.P. Hill, Caroline County, Virginia. The project area is located in the north central portion of the Fort A.P. Hill Military Reservation and is composed of approximately 61 square hectares (150 square acres). The goal of this cultural resources assessment was to determine if any known historic properties were located in the APE and to...
Phase I Investigation of the Boy Scouts of America Jamoree Grounds, Fort A.P. Hill
The Boy Scouts of America requested a Phase I cultural resources survey associated with planned improvements to Training Area 7B in preparation for the 2005 National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Caroline County, Virginia. The project area is located in the northwestern portion of the Fort A.P. Hill Military Reservation and is approximately 9.95 hectares (24.6 acres). The goal of this cultural resources assessment was to identify any cultural resources located within the Area of Potential Effect....
Phase I Investigation, Explosive Ordinance Demolition Expansion, Fort A.P. Hill
A Survey of approximately 1028 acres for explosive ordinance demolition training areas at Fort A.P. Hill. This project contains the artifact catalog and photographs from this survey.
Phase I Investigation, Hot Lanes I-95, Quantico (QU2013.001)
This project contains field notes, site maps, an artifact inventory and lab results associated with Phase I investigations conducted at Hot Lanes I-95, Quantico, Virginia.
Phase I Investigation, TA11 Shop Road, Fort Lee (FL2010.010)
This project contains an artifact catalog for TA 11 Shop Road Phase investigations, located at Fort Lee, Virginia.
Phase I Investigation, The Button Site, Fort Lee (FL2009.007)
This project contains an artifact catalog and accompanying photographs of artifacts excavated at the Button Site located at Fort Lee, Virginia.
Phase II Archaeological and Historical Investigations, Site 44PG317, Fort Lee (FL1990.001)
Results of Phase 2 archaeological and historical evaluations conducted at 44PG317, a 19th century domestic site owned and occupied by a freed black family from 1823 through the 1st decade of the 20th century. The Phase 2 evaluation indicates that the site, which contains intact features and fits into an historic context emphasizing the 19th century from the Federal and Antebellum periods through the Civil War and Postbellum periods. Further, since the site was owned and occupied by a free...