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DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Tucson on 20 March 1880, dramatically changed the community. Historic Block 83 was located across the street from the railroad depot and developed rapidly in response to the sudden influx of departing or arriving travelers. Boarding houses, a hotel, saloons, restaurants, barber shops, a pool hall, a Chinese laundry, and several small stores were among the businesses that catered to these people. The southeastern corner of the block was associated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brockington and Associates. Eric C. Poplin. Ed Salo.

Archaeologists with Brockington and Associates, Inc., monitored the installation of a swimming pool at 82 Pitt Street in Charleston, South Carolina, to satisfy a preservation easement held by the Historic Charleston Foundation on this property. Test excavations and construction monitoring identified two primary features in the area scheduled for the pool. These are a brick and bone floor and a brick-lined well. The floor may once have been covered by a single-story building based on the presence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack T. Wynn.

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Archaeological data recovery on Historic Block 185 documented features from two subsurface archaeological sites, AZ BB:13:756 (ASM) and AZ BB:13:757 (ASM). BB:13:756 included soil mining pits, where material to manufacture adobe bricks for the Tucson Presidio was collected, and the foundations of twentieth century dwellings. BB:13:757 consisted of portions of two canals, one dating to the Prehistoric era and one filled with Territorial-era trash. These resources were determined to be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia E. Brown.

Archaeological investigations were conducted at an historic work camp which was first occupied between 1906 and 1908 during the construction of Granite Reef Dam, a diversion structure on the Salt River in south-central Arizona. The site was investigated through the use of archaeological field data; written records, documents, maps and photographs related to the site; and interviews with Gertrude Hill Muir who was born at Granite Reef Dam in 1909.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia E. Brown.

Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University conducted a cultural resource study of AZ U:6:2(ASU), an historic site located adjacent to Granite Reef Dam on the south side of the Salt River. A portion of the historic camp was contained within the construction right-of-way of the Salt River Siphon, a feature of the Central Arizona Project which connects the Granite Reef and Salt-Gila...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Allison Cohen Diehl. Judi L. Cameron. Michael W. Diehl. James Heidke. J. Homer Thiel.

When the City of Tucson announced its plan to replace the aging Connie Chambers housing facility in Barrio Libre with new, affordable single family homes, a cultural resources assessment was conducted to determine if the project had the potential to disturb historically significant archaeological deposits. Archival records revealed that homes dating as early as the late nineteenth century once stood on three of the city blocks occupied by the housing project. Most of the homes were owned or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Glory Anne Laffey. Vance Bente. Robert Cartier. Charlene Detlefs. Edna Kimbro.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald P. Heldman.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Q. Sutton. Joan S. Schneider.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Franklin. Richard L. Carrico.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul J. Mohler.

The Center for Cultural and Environmental History (CCEH) at the University of Massachusetts Boston conducted a limited Phase I Reconnaissance Survey of Houghton Garden in Newton (Chestnut Hill), Massachusetts. With no previous surveys conducted in the area, the reconnaissance survey of 10 acres around Houghton Pond was directly linked to the rehabilitation of the paths and the construction of informational kiosks. Houghton Garden is listed in the State and National Registers of Historic...

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. Thomas Gresham. US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District.

This collection is referred to as “Archaeological Investigations at Indian Cove (9LC24) 1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a half (1.5) linear inches. The documents date from 1985 to 2011. The investigation occurred in 1985, which explains the date of the project name. The range of dates includes further correspondence regarding the collection inventory and transfer. The documents were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim A. McBride. W. Stephen McBride.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry D. Wallace.

Excavations at the large Hohokam ballcourt settlement of Los Morteros, AZ AA:12:57 (ASM), in 1987 and 1988 resulted in the identification of 770 prehistoric cultural features, including 349 structures, an adobe-walled compound enclosure, and at least five discrete cemeteries in the northern and southern portions of the kilometer-long site. Ninety-eight of the structures were fully or partially excavated. Also identified were a historic canal and evidence pointing to the location of the historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone.

In 1975, the Arizona State Parks Board acquired a portion of lot 38 within the Town of Florence, Pinal County, Arizona. This lot, located north of Fifth Street between Granite Street on the west and Main Street on the east, is adjacent to the north side of McFarland State Historical Park (Figure 1). The State Park is located on lot 67 and includes the restored 1877-1878 first Pinal County Courthouse. Lot 38 is now a part of the park property and it has been proposed that a new archives building...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John N. Kilmarx.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim M. Lanphear.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Tiffany Clark. Greg Schachner. Keith Kintigh.

This report summarizes the results of the 1996 season of fieldwork conducted by the Rudd Creek Archaeological Project (RCAP) as part of the Arizona State University Archaeological Field School at the Sipe White Mountain Wildlife Area. This field school derives from a long-term research project focused on prehistoric developments in the Cibola region. The 1996 excavations at Rudd Creek Pueblo (AZ Q:16:63 [ASM]) focused on two main goals. The first goal was to document the architecture and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sue A. Wade.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Elliott.

This report documents the second session of archaeological investigations conducted in the slave quarter and servants' quarters at the North End plantation site, Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, Georgia. This study was conducted by the LAMAR Institute and the Archaeological Services Unit, Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources for the Ossabaw Island Foundation. The field study was conducted intermittently from January through October 2006 and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dennis J. Pogue. Karlene B. Leeper.

This is the final report if archaeological investigations undertaken prior to the construction of utility lines and and EVM Test Facility proposed by the Naval Electronics Systems Engineering Activity (NESEA) in St. Inigoes, Maryland. Based on a previous survey, investigations focused on two areas known as "Old Chapel Field" and "Langley Hollow." Testing consisted of 406 shovel tests, four 5 x 5' units, and surface collection of three acres of plowed land. While Langley Hollow yielded little,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William R. Latady. Allen D. Darlington.

Before stabilization activities in 1982, limited archaeological testing was undertaken at the Fort Fred Steele Bridge Tender’s House. Questions existed concerning later replacement or remodeling of the original structure. Archaeological investigations were oriented toward establishing the date of initial construction on the structure and identification of any later building activities. Information gained through excavation , supplemented with historical research, suggests the extant structure...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul H. Ezell.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only William Wallace.

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