Folly Beach (Geographic Keyword)

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"The Best Ever Occupied...": Archaeological Investigations of a Civil War Encampment on Folly Island, South Carolina (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Legg. Steven D. Smith.

In May of 1987, the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology was informed that human remains were being unearthed by road construction in a private residential development on Folly Island, South Carolina. This information led to a two year investigation of the 1863 winter camp of the Federal Army, used during its siege of Charleston. During the investigations a black military cemetery was salvaged (site 38CH920), and three areas of the Federal camp were examined as part of a data...


Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Clam Farm Tract (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer Salo. Charles F. Phillips Jr..

In October 2005, Brockington and Associates, Inc., surveyed 12 acres of uplands associated with the Clam Farm Tract for Interlink Development, LLC. This survey included a review of the history of land ownership and use through public documents, a review of previous investigations in and near the project area, and the excavation of shovel tests at 30 meter (100 foot) intervals along the project tract. Shovel tests were also excavated immediately around the clam farming facilities. An...