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DOCUMENT Full-Text Forest Frost.

The Master Plan (1970) of the Lincoln Horne National Historic Site calls for the reconstruction of the Arnold Barn using available historic documentation and information derived from controlled archeological investigations. The Site's management staff seeks to use all sources of evidence to ensure that the barn appears as it did circa 1860. Excavations at the site revealed evidence of two barns. The earlier rectangular barn was replaced with a smaller square barn. The sequence of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Janis L. Dial-Jones.

The Midwest Archeological Center conducted field investigations at Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois in 2005 and 2006 in conjunction with the preparation of Historic Structure Reports on two of the houses that originally stood in the Abraham Lincoln neighborhood in close proximity to the Lincoln Home itself, the Carrigan house immediately next door to the north and the Burch house directly across Eighth Street to the west. An archeological inventory and evaluation of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

In conjunction with the restoration and adaptive reuse of the Harriet Dean House, one of several historic structures within Lincoln Home National Historic Site, the Midwest Archeological Center carried out limited archeological testing on the house lot associated with that former dwelling. Those investigations were designed to examine areas that might be impacted by the restoration effort and to provide information that might also contribute to historical accuracy of the restoration plan. In...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

In response to preliminary plans for restoration of the Charles E. Arnold House, the Midwest Archeological Center initiated field investigations within Lincoln Home National Historic Site in the summer of 1991. The excavation team sought specific information about the original position of the relocated structure, as well as more general information on associated cultural resources that might be present on the house lot. We found no unambiguous physical remains that would refine the restored...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan J. Osborn.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site is located in urban Springfield, Illinois. It preserves the residence of the Abraham Lincoln family before the Civil War, as well as several other residences dating to the mid-19th century. A number of property lots within the park also formerly contained mid-19th century houses and ancillary buildings. Lincoln’s residence and nearby properties have been the subject of intermittent archeological investigation since 1951. This archeological overview and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

Test excavations at the Miller House site in Lincoln Home National Historic Site (LIHO), were undertaken in response to National Park Service (NPS) plans to restore and reconstruct the house to its original circa 1860 appearance. The scale of the construction is such that there is potential for considerable ground disturbance. This, in an archeological site which historical documentation and small-scale archeological investigations have demonstrated to contain or potentially contain intact...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

This report describes archeological field research performed in conjunction with final preparations for restoration of the Sarah Cook House within Lincoln Home National Historic Site. Restoration plans called for removal and replacement of its deteriorating foundation, which would involve considerable ground disturbance in an area known to be archeologically sensitive. The investigations of 1989 examined the area of direct impacts associated with the undertaking and recovered data from several...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

The geophysical survey of the Allen Miller House property lot (Site 11 SG 1318) at Lincoln Home National Historic Site (LIHO), Springfield, Illinois, was conducted between October 24th and October 28th, 200~;;by Midwest archeologist Steven De Yore. The geophysical survey was requested by the Lincoln Home National Historic Site staff to identify archeological resources that would be of interest to the historic structure resource team investigations and the proposed restoration of the Allen Miller...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

This report summarizes the methods and results, as well as the initiating purpose, of archeological excavations carried out at the Julia Sprigg House in the summers of 1992 and 1993. That structure was one of several extant historic buildings within Lincoln Home National Historic Site scheduled for restoration. Limited testing confirmed the presence of intact cultural remains at the rear of the lot, but could not confirm the survival of evidence relating to certain historic elements of the main...