South Carolina (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wayne D. Roberts.

"The Department proposes to improve the S. C. 302/4 intersection by moving the alignment of S. C. 302 approximately 200 meters to the southeast resulting in a crossroads intersection of S. C. 302 and S-53 with S. C. 4. This will improve safety and slight distance for the intersection."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles J. Rinehart.

"The project involved the replacement of the existing bridge with a reinforced concrete flat slab bridge. The parcel of new right-of-way measure 335 feet long by 42 feet."

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Roach. Frederick Engle. Aaron Hamilton. Tom Edwards. Joseph C Hoyt. Doug Van Kirk.

Between May 22 – 29, 2015, the Battle of the Atlantic Research and Expedition Group collaborated with NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary to survey the wreck of the Dixie Arrow, an American tanker sunk in 1942 by the German submarine U-71.   Over this 7-day period, 13 divers mapped the nearly 500-foot-long contiguous wreck.  This paper will outline the methodology undertaken by the group, the challenges encountered in conducting the survey, and the key archaeological findings from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kasey Diserens Morgan.

If collective memory "requires the support of a group delimited in space and time," (Halbwachs 1992) how does archaeological work engaging local communities impact the memory of historical events? As scholars interested in the indigenous rebellion known as the Caste War (1847-1901) in Tihosuco, Mexico, we are often told by members of the local community who repopulated the area eighty years ago that we know more about the history of the uprising than they do. This paper seeks to explore three...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Debra K. Martin.

"An archaeological survey and associated research were conducted by Carolina Archaeological Services for Aiken County Public Service Authority's Horse Creek Interceptor, one of a series of secondary trunk lines associated with the Aiken Tech facilities upgrade. The Horse Creek valley is located near Aiken (Aiken County), South Carolina. The field assessments were conducted over a period of two days from June 4 -5, 1985, under contract with Aiken County Public Service Authority. This survey was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Debra K. Martin. Lesley M. Drucker.

"As a part of its contract activities, CAS conducted historical research, examined state archaeological site records and environmental data, and consulted with state personnel to determine the number and types of historical properties and Cultural features which have been previously documented in the study area (S. C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology; S. C. Department of Archives and History; University of South Carolina Map Library). The results of this literature search indicated that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Judge.

Archaeological inventory survey of eight Government excess tracts in the northeastern piedmont of Georgia resulted in the identification of one temporally non-diagnostic prehistoric (lithic scatter) site with an historic landscape feature. No significant historic properties or landscape features were identified. Excess tracts were surveyed in Columbia, Lincoln, and Stephens Counties, Georgia.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Bolen.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Judge.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell E Matthews. James P. Delgado. Megan Lickliter-Mundon. Michael L. Brennan. John G Lambert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. August 2016 saw the first archaeological survey conducted at the wreck of USS Independence (CVL22), a USN carrier scuttled off California in 1951 following use in atomic testing. A team of experts in nautical archaeology, physics, marine biology and historic aviation worked to document the sunken warship...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric C. Poplin. Kara Bridgman. Patrick Sievert.

From June 1999 through March 2002, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted data recovery investigations at 38CH1 025 at the Pointe at RiverTowne Country Club on Parkers Island in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The site is located in Charleston County and was intermittently occupied from the Ceramic Late Archaic through the Late Woodland periods. Wando ceramics define the primary occupation of the site. Two of three oyster shell refuse middens at 38CH1025 display distinct strata that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason, T. Raupp. Mark Keusenkothen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In February 1945 a Consolidated PB2Y-5R Coronado crashed into Kwajalein Lagoon while attempting to land after a regularly scheduled flight from Honolulu. The conditions of the wrecking event resulted in the forward portion of the aircraft being torn off and sinking in the seadrome...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Trinkley.

"(Proposed Borrow) Pit area is situated on a sand ridge overlooking Bradley Mill Branch."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Olga M. Caballero.

"The proposed pit is located in the southwestern quadrant of the intersection of S.C. Route 230 (Martintown Road) and S-309 (Bunting Road), within the boundaries of the city of North Augusta. The area consists of a sloping piney wood with a few small hardwood saplings and a moderately dense understory of vines and brambles. It measures approximately 400 by 400 feet (3.6 acres).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wayne D. Roberts.

"The proposed pit is on the edge of a ridgetop overlooking Shaws Creek. Elevation is approximately 450 feet."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Olga M. Caballero.

"The proposed pit is located south of S.C. 302 at the juncture of S-81 and S.C. 302, about 2.5 miles southwest of the Aiken city boundary. The pit measures approximately 200 by 700 feet (3.2 acres) and consists of a fallow pasture located on a sloping hillside."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wayne D. Roberts.

"The borrow pit is located along U.S. 278/S.C. 125 approximately 1.7 miles southwest of the town of Clearwater."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth F. Styer.

"The proposed pit is approximately 2.2 acres of sloping ridge finger west of S-230. The pit is bounded on the north by a flagged property line, on the south by a length of chain link fence that encloses a warehouse, on the east bv an existing pit and in the west bv flagging."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Olga M. Caballero.

"An archaeological survey of the above mentioned project was conducted by the Department's Staff Archaeologist on August 29, 1985. The project is located on an unpaved county road approximately 13 miles northeast of the City of Aiken, and 2.5 miles north of the intersection of the county road and U.S. 1 (see Figure 1). The project would involve replacing the currently washed out timber bridge with a new structure at a new location approximately 340 feet upstream (see Figure 1). The new bridge...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Inna Burns.

"Archaeological data recovery investigations at 38CH691, an archaeological site eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), exposed the remnants of the primary settlement of the colonial-antebellum Schieveling Plantation, three late eighteenth-early nineteenth century slave residences in outlying portions of the site, and a buried occupation horizon associated with the Middle to Late Woodland occupation of the site. In total, these investigations encompassed 1,528.65 m2 or 28.7...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis L. Bianchi.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only David Palmer.

Brookgreen Plantation was one of the largest and most productive rice plantations in the United States prior to the Civil War. Owner Joshua John Ward held more than 1,000 Africans in slavery on this and his other plantations. The remains of Brookgreen Plantation are now a part of Brookgreen Gardens, an outdoor museum established in 1931 by Anna Hyatt Huntington.  Brookgreen Gardens is expanding its public interpretation of the historic plantations on its property, including the lives of enslaved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Honerkamp. R. Bruce Council. M. Elizabeth Will.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Trinkley.

"An archaeological investigation of the above referenced project was conducted by the Department's Staff Archaeologist on October 21, 1982. The proposal involves a relocation of S-87, the construction of an 88-foot wide box culvert in the wetlands of Chinquapin Creek, and the channelization of the creek. The proposed S-87 road relocation is situated about 50 feet north of the existing road (upstream) for a distance of 400 feet. The new channel for Chinquapin Creek would be excavated about 50...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolane Veilleaux. Chuck Meide.

The Storm Wreck, site number 8SJ5459, was discovered in 2009 by the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP), about a mile offshore St. Augustine, Florida. It has been excavated every year since then in conjunction with LAMP’s underwater archaeology field school. A wide range of artifacts has been recovered, including ordnance, firearms, ship’s equipment, tools and hardware, personal effects, and household items, and are now being conserved at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime...