African American (Culture Keyword)
Parent: Historic
151-175 (384 Records)
Chapter 2 of the draft recommendations: The African Burial Ground is a deeply buried archeological site in Lower Manhattan, New York City, the remains of a cemetery used for free and enslaved Africans primarily during the eighteenth century. The site covers approximately seven acres bounded by Duane Street on the north, Chambers Street on the south, Centre and Lafayette Streets on the east and Broadway to the west. It is located in Block Numbers 153, 154 and 155 in the Borough of Manhattan in...
Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. Chapter 3. Civic Engagement (2006)
Chapter 3 of the draft recommendations: Effective public participation was required to accomplish the tasks assigned to the National Park Service by the interagency agreement between the GSA and the NPS.
Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. Chapter 4. Elements Underlying Interpretation and Education (2006)
Chapter 4 of the draft recommendation: This chapter serves as the foundation for those that follow. It includes a suggested mission statement for use by the managers of the site, the reasons for the African Burial Ground’s national significance, the basic elements and values of the site, suggested primary interpretive themes, and other factors that influence planning and operations. These underlying elements, as a whole, are suggested as the touchstone for future management policies and...
Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. Chapter 6. Choices for the Future (2006)
Chapter 6 of the draft recommendations: This chapter examines alternative futures for the African Burial Ground. It describes four possible management scenarios, along with facilities and staffing requirements. Expanded programming from that currently offered is assumed in all alternatives, and estimated costs are discussed for each. Costs include facilities and associated staffing, and are expressed in 2005 dollars. The NPS technical assistance team conducted a charrette with architects,...
Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. Chapter 7. Long-Term Interpretative Plan Summary (2006)
Chapter 7 of the draft recommendations: A long-range interpretive planis a framework for an effective interpretive program. It identifies appropriate services and desired experiences for audiences, and it addresses management challenges.
Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. Cover Pages (2006)
First two pages of the management recommendations report.
Draft Management Recommendations for the African Burial Ground. Table of Contents and Summary (2006)
Front pages plus table of contents for the draft recommendations report.
The El Paso Natural Gas Line No. 2000 Conversion Project: An Archaeological Re-Survey of the Former All American Pipeline Across La Paz, Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal, Pima, and Cochise Counties, Arizona (2000)
In April and May 2000, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted cultural resource surveys for EPNG's Line No. 2000 Project, surveying the former All American Pipeline in Cochise, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties for the Arizona segment. At the request of EPNG, SWCA began the cultural resources survey for this project in April 2000 in support of an Environmental Assessment (EA) being prepared by ENSR, Inc., in conjunction with a pipeline acquisition, conversion, operation...
Elko Switch Cemetery: An Archaeological Perspective (1989)
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An Examination of Aboriginal Artifacts at Julianton Slave Sites 09MIAS832, 862, 863 and 871 (1988)
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Excavation Photos from the Exploreum Site (1MB189), Mobile County, Alabama. (1996)
A collection of excavation photos from the Exploreum site (1MB189).
Exploreum Site (1MB189), Mobile County, Alabama.
In 1996 the University of South Alabama's Center for Archaeological Studies conducted archaeological excavations at the proposed site of the Gulf Coast Exploreum and Science Center in downtown Mobile, Alabama. Bonnie Gums and George Shorter directed field work in two areas explored in depth. Among several important finds was the remains of an earthfast Spanish-colonial building's foundations and associated discarded possessions of the Espejo family, our first archaeological glimpse of that...
Exploring the Rustic Life: Multidisciplinary Research at Millwood Plantation, a Large Piedmont Plantation in Abbeville County, South Carolina and Elbert County, Georgia, Appendix (1987)
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Exploring the Rustic Life: Multidisciplinary Research at Millwood Plantation, a Large Piedmont Plantation in Abbeville County, South Carolina and Elbert County, Georgia, Volume I (1987)
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Exploring the Rustic Life: Multidisciplinary Research at Millwood Plantation, a Large Piedmont Plantation in Abbeville County, South Carolina and Elbert County, Georgia, Volume II (1987)
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Fanthorp Inn State Historical Park (41GM79), Grimes County, Texas: Archeological investigations, 1983-1989 (1998)
This report summarizes archeological investigations conducted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department at Fanthorp Inn State Historical Park from 1983 to 1989. This work was necessary to accompany architectural restoration of the inn as it appeared during the period between 1850 and 1867. Since restoration was completed, Fanthorp Inn State Historical Park in Anderson, Grimes County, has been run as an interpretive site representing a transportation and communication center of the...
The Ford Plantation Project, Georgia
Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive Phase I cultural resources survey and Phase II testing project in 1998, for the Ford Plantation Development, in Bryan County, Georgia. The project encompassed approximately 720 hectares (1,800 acres). Survey consisted of background archival research (to locate previously identified cultural resources and to assess the potential for new discovery), fieldwork (excavation of shovel test probes, pedestrian reconnaissance, and 2 by 2 meter test...
The Ford Plantation Project: Archaeological Data Recovery at Cherry Hill Plantation (9BN49/56/57), Bryan County, Georgia (2003)
The Ford Plantation Development includes an area of roughly 720 hectares (1800 acres) in Bryan County, Georgia, along the south bank of the Ogeechee River. The residential community and recreational complex now occupies land that first saw European settlement in the 1730s and has long been the domain of both prehistoric and historic period Native American occupations. In 1998 Brockington and Associates, Inc., was contracted to conduct a Phase I Archaeological and Historic Architectural Survey of...
The Ford Plantation Project: Archaeological Data Recovery at Silk Hope Plantation (9BN58 & 9BN176), Bryan County, Georgia (2003)
The Ford Plantation Development includes an area of roughly 720 hectares (1,800 acres) in Bryan County, Georgia, along the south bank of the Ogeechee River. The residential community and recreational complex now occupies land that first saw European settlement in the 1730s and has long been the domain of both prehistoric and historic period Native American occupations. In 1998 Brockington and Associates, Inc., was contracted to conduct a Phase I Archaeological and Historic Architectural Survey...
Free African American Archaeology: Interpreting an Antebellum Farmstead, Site 44PG317, Fort Lee (1991)
The purpose of this work is to examine material culture recovered from the Charles A. Gilliam site, 44PG317, within an interpretive, contextual framework. The site represents the remains of a middling farmstead which was owned and occupied by Charles Gilliam, a free African American, and his heirs from ca. 1823 to 1917. This study concentrates on the period 1823-1865 when Charles lived at the site. Ceramics recovered from the site, and the information provided by the architectural remains are...
"Gone to a Better Land": a Biohistory of a Rural Black Cemetery in the Post-Reconstruction South (1985)
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The Gowen Farmstead: Archaeological Data Recovery at Site 40DV401(Area D), Davidson County, Tennessee (1993)
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GPR Survey at Behavior Cemetary, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2010)
“We can’t swing a shovel without waking someone up.” This statement, made by a Gullah-Geechee resident of the Hog Hammock community on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is important for two reasons. First, it speaks to an increasingly common problem occurring at the Island’s Behavior Cemetery: the presence of unmarked graves and disturbances to them from attempts to dig new graves. Second, it provided the impetus for a community-driven program of mortuary archaeological research at Behavior by the...
A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Jane Oliver Cemetery, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas (1997)
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A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Old Mount Zion Cemetery Near the Town of Newton, Dale County, Alabama (1997)
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