Maryland (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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Memorandum from the US Army Electronics Research and Development Command to US Army Materiel Command answering the request for updating financial data for stabilization and relocation of the Ballast House, milestone data presentation, and a summary of misunderstanding of actions concerning the studies done at Ballast House by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District. Later copy can be found in tDAR at: https://core.tdar.org/document/445806.
Memorandum from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to Commander of the Adelphi Laboratory Center, Phase I Cultural Resource Survey (1994)
Memorandum regarding review of the Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of the Adelphi Laboratory Center by the Maryland State Historic Preservation Office.
Memorandum from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to the Directorate of Public Works, U.S. Army Adelphi Laboratory Center, Floral Drive Bridge Repairs (1994)
Identification of special circumstances for design of Floral Drive Bridge repairs and Timber Bridge replacement.
Memorandum from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Transmittal of Archeological Site Forms from Maryland Historic Trust (2006)
Memorandum for the transmittal of archaeological site forms from the Maryland Historical Trust, along with a copy of the Determination of Eligibility form for the Aurora Pulsed Radiation Simulator.
Memorandum from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Transmittal of Draft Phase II Report at 18-PR-438 (1994)
Transmittal Slip and Memorandum for the Draft "Phase II Cultural Resources Investigations (Preliminary Site Investigations) at the Proposed Scale Model Test Facility, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Prince Georges County, Maryland."
Memorandum from U.S. Army Electronics Research and Development Command to Harry Diamond Laboratories, DARCOM Historic/Acheological Surveys (1982)
Memorandum of distribution with the subject "DARCOM Historic/Archaeological Surveys (DHAS)" with a list of personnel being employed from other US Agencies to conduct archaeological surveys at numerous sites.
Memorandum from U.S. Army Research Laboratory to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Official Property Transfer Site W (1995)
Memorandum for the Commander of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, from Program Manager of the US Army Research Laboratory. The memorandum is in regards the Official property transfer of "Site W" to the Army Research Laboratory. The information was enclosed on a floppy disk (not included as a tDAR resource).
Memorandum from US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, Blossom Point Farm Cultural Investigation (1990)
Memorandum for the Commander of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District from the Chief of the Planning Division, US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, in regards to the Ballast House at Blossom Point, Maryland. Attached is an architectural, historical, and archaeological investigations report of the Ballast House which includes scope of work.
Memorandum from US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to US Army Research Laboratory, FY94 Funding (1993)
Memorandum regarding funds in preparation for Phase II archaeological documentation.
Memorandum from US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to US Army Research Laboratory, Review of Section 106 Report (1993)
A memorandum regarding a Phase I investigation for a proposed US Army Material Command. Included is a coordination letter for transmittal to the State Historic Preservation Office. The coordination letter contains minor information on the site of the proposed facility.
Memorandum from US Army Electronics Research and Development Command to US Army Materiel Command, Ballast House Stabilization Financial Data (1985)
1985 copy of a memorandum from the US Army Electronics Research and Development Command to the US Army Materiel Command answering the request for updating financial data for stabilization and relocation of the Ballast House, milestone data presentation, and a summary of misunderstanding of actions concerning the studies done at Ballast House by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District. Earlier copy can be found in tDAR at: https://core.tdar.org/document/445796.
Memorandum from US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command to Commander of Harry Diamond Laboratories, Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment, Blossom Point (1976)
Memoranda from the Engineering Division, US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command to the Commander, Harry Diamond Laboratories in regards to an old historic house at Blossom Point, Maryland. This memo has a disposition form and additional memo as enclosures.
Memorandum from US Army Research Laboratory to US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Draft Phase II, Cultural Resource Investigations (1994)
Memorandum concerning the draft Phase II cultural resource investigation report conducted at the 500 Area of the US Army Adelphi Laboratory Center. Enclosure includes list of comments, suggestions, and changes to the plan.
Memorandum of Agreement between Harry Diamond Laboratories and Interagency Archeological Services-Atlanta, Historic Evaluation (1979)
Signed Memorandum of Agreement between Harry Diamond Laboratories and Interagency Archaeological Services-Atlanta, in regards to the Ballast House at Blossom Point, Maryland.
Memorandum of the Repairs on the Ballast House, 2000.027_0238 (1852)
Historical memorandum for the repairs of the Ballast House in 1852.
Memorandums between U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command and U.S. Army Electronics Research and Development Command, Ballast House (1982)
Memorandums of record between Chief of Facilities Engineering Office, Ralph M. Peck Jr.; Chief of Real Estate Branch Engineer Division, Stanley H. Fried; and Chief of Staff for the Electronics Research and Development Command, Colonel Eugene S. Lynch, over preparing DA Form 337, Disposal of Real Estate form, for the disposal of the Ballast House at Blossom Point.
Memorandums for the District Engineer, the Commanderof the Adelphi Laboratory Center, and a letter from Kise Franks & Straw (1993)
Multiple memorandums regarding submissions of reports conducted at Blossom Point. They include mentions of the Environmental Assessment and Phase I and II Archaeological Investigations. Reports are not included.
Memories that Haunt: Reconciling with the ghosts of the American Indian School System (2018)
During the nineteenth century, the United States had an "Indian Problem". The problem was that Indians continued to exist despite rigorous efforts to erase them from the landscape through disease, violence, and segregation. To solve this conundrum, the U.S. government staffed and funded the Indian School System; a system comprised of residential and non-residential schools in which savage Indians were transformed into obedient citizens. Over the past several decades, archaeologists and...
Memory and Engagement with Sacred Ground: the many publics of Mount Vernon's African-American Cemetery (2018)
In 2013, Mount Vernon's archaeology department began a long term research project to locate the graves of enslaved and emancipated individuals interred within the African-American cemetery on the home quarter of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. Four years deep, dozens of graves have been reclaimed from new growth forest and the cemetery has taken on new life as a touchstone of memory and an interpretive vehicle for a diverse array of descendants, scholars, and visitors to the historic...
Memory and Heritage Before and After 1991: A Case Study from the Solovetsky Islands (2015)
As recent battles over the fate and meaning of the gulag site in Perm have shown, gulag heritage in Russia remains highly dissonant. Questions of how to manage and interpret former gulags have become increasingly politically charged in the last few years, following a brief thaw during the perestroika and glasnost periods. The island site of the infamous Solvetsky Gulag offers an illuminating case study of the struggles of stakeholders – monks, other island residents, tourism...
Memory and Relevance: Local History and Outreach by the Anthracite Heritage Project at Eckley Miners’ Village (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Communicating Working Class Heritage in the 21st Century: Values, Lessons, Methods, and Meanings" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Eckley Miners’ Village in Luzerne County, PA is a living history museum that holds significance to many residents of the surrounding area. Preserving and interpreting the homes and buildings that once made up an anthracite coal mining patch town, the site retains ties to many in the area...
Men of Good Timber: An Archaeological Investigation of Labor in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (2015)
Questions of labor and everyday life have been commonplace in archaeology. At Coalwood, a cordwood camp that operated from 1901-1912 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, these issues become especially important since labor experienced a dramatic transformation when the camp shifted from housing a large number of male laborers to being organized by individual households. In this paper I use archaeological evidence to examine the social relations these laborers were engaged in that produced and...
The Men of the H. L. Hunley: An Osteological Portrait (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lives Revealed: Interpreting the Human Remains and Personal Artifacts from the Civil War Submarine H. L. Hunley" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The remains of the Hunley crew were removed from the vessel following a careful, detailed, documentation process. Osteological, stable isotope, and DNA analyses confirmed the identities and places of origin of the eight men. The skeletal remains provide details...
Mercy in a Town Without: Catholic Nurses and their Medical Care in a Frontier Town (2018)
From Ireland to Fort Smith, the Sisters of Mercy parish was established by Bishop Andrew Byrne, along with five devout female recruits, to support the Church of Immaculate Conception which would be the first Catholic place of worship in what was considered the "wild" westernmost portion of the United States.The Sisters of Mercy site, (3SB1083) was occupied from its establishment in 1853 up to present day, where it hosts several schools, outbuildings, and a cathedral and acts still today as a...
Message in a Breech Block: A Fragmentary Printed Text Recovered from Queen Anne’s Revenge (2018)
The collection of artefacts recovered from the 1718 wreck of Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR) contains a broad array of items typical of shipboard life on a pirate vessel, as well as tantalizing, unique finds. While unloading and conserving the breech chamber for a breechloading swivel gun, conservators recovered 16 small fragments of paper, some bearing legible printed text. These fragments of text have been uncovered after nearly 300 years inside a cannon chamber on the sea floor, and conservators...