Mid-Atlantic (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara J. Rivers Cofield.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Perhaps following the example of the Spanish who imported horses in the 16th century, the Virginia Company included horses as essential to pack for their colonization venture. However, the primary benefit of carrying horses across the Atlantic before 1609 turned out to be the meat they offered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Efrain Ocasio.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid-19th century, midwives were local women, usually with children of their own, who had learned midwifery as apprentices. Observing and helping with deliveries accumulated their skills and exposed them to the variety of problems they would face when working on their own. Dunkerhook, a community established by formerly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Lorin Brace VI.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As monuments celebrating the Confederacy have come down in cities across the country in recent months, following the protests sparked by the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and numerous other Black Americans, debates have raged over the country’s legacies of slavery and racism. Some argue that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Bowden. Brigid M. Ogden. Elizabeth Tarulis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents an analysis of a tentatively identified animal membrane condom from the colonial Oxon Hill Manor Site (18PR175) in Maryland using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) to identify the taxon from which the artifact was made. Taxonomic identification of the condom allows for more in-depth exploration of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Proebsting.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A key focus of the long-term archaeological work that has taken place at Poplar Forest has included developing a highly-detailed contextual understanding of Jefferson’s retreat home and plantation. Over the past decade, research and restoration efforts associated with the carriage circle, ornamental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas A. Crist. Kimberly A. Morrell. Douglas B. Mooney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Not all figures who sustain social or political movements are obvious or celebrated. For instance, in 1923 Rosetta Douglass Sprague published a short biography of her mother Anna Murray-Douglass, the first wife of Frederick Douglass. No such biography of Ann (Crusoe) Gloucester exists despite her husband...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey H. Maymon. Michael A. Simons. Christopher R. Polglase. Hugh B. McAloon. S. Justine Woodard.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher R. Polglase. Jeffrey H. Maymon. Kathleen Child. Justine Woodard. Thomas W. Neumann.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison M. Ricci-Wadas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Artifacts from places of confinement, excavated by archaeologists from institutions occupied long ago, provide unique insights into the people who lived, worked, and died there. Between 1835 and 1905, the Blockley Almshouse in Philadelphia housed the sick poor, mentally ill, unwed mothers, and children. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel A. Pickard. Joel Dworsky.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations at the Somerset-Cambria and Cambria-Ann sites conducted as part of the I-95 Girard Avenue Improvement Project encompassed two full city blocks of the Port Richmond neighborhood in Philadelphia. Such sites offered archaeologists the opportunity to examine data from a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Niculescu. Nichole Doub. Scott Seibel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 18th century, Alexandria, Virginia’s waterfront was literally and figuratively created by ships. Recent redevelopment revealed the remnants of four historic vessels and numerous wharves and land making structures. These important pieces of maritime heritage have provided new opportunities for studying the past while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer A. Lupu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the nation’s capital, Washington, DC was designed and governed as an intended ideological model for the nation. In this paper, I contextualize and explore the history of Washington, from its initial plan, which sought to use elevation and lines of sight to center built symbols of democratic governance,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry Wheeler Stone.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1774, New Jerseyans agreed: No taxation without representation. This unity disintegrated when a New Jersey Provincial Congress prepared for armed resistance to Great Britain. The population split between those that wanted to remain part of the British empire (Tories or Loyalists), those that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Breen. Flordeliz T. Bugarin. Benjamin A. Skolnik.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1895, a group of trustees established Douglass Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, named in memory of Frederick Douglass and for Alexandria’s African American community. Over a century later, the cemetery faces several intersecting preservation issues that threaten the physical integrity of the site and the African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Gary. Meredith Poole.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Founded in 1776 the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg is considered one of the oldest Black churches in America. Oral history states that a white landowner gave the congregation its first building, which was destroyed by a tornado and replaced in 1856 with a brick church. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation acquired and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William L. Kidder.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Jacob Francis of Amwell Township, New Jersey experienced indentured servitude in New Jersey, New York, the West Indies, and Salem, Massachusetts ending on his twenty-first birthday in 1775. Overcoming resistance to Black enlistment in the Continental Army, he joined a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Larsen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. "Salubria" is the oldest brick structure in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 1757 house, today, is unique in its presentation and interpretation. Preliminary archaeology, done in 2019, focused on the landscape surrounding the structure. In contemplating the season's results over the spring months of the Pandemic,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily L. Swain.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC admitted its first patients in 1855. After a patient with no relatives died the following year, a cemetery was established on a hillside overlooking the Anacostia River. During its short two decades of use, civilian and Civil War veteran patients were buried there. However, few...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefanie M. Smith. Natalie Adams Pope.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Data recovery excavations were completed at the former City Farm property in Newport News, Virginia with the goal of documenting the remains of the historic Warwicktowne settlement. Warwicktowne was established by the Virginia Company for use as a major port in 1680 and functioned as a judicial center until the Warwick County...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brianna LeBlanc. Jessica Old.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through the transfer of land by Charles I in the 17th century, the Calvert lineage set out to evoke a manorial system, exceeding that of the English practice. With intent to raise the social stature of Maryland, settlers were promised land grants based upon the amount of people brought to the New World in their charge. Through this grant, these landowners would subsequently create a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth G. Tarulis. Keri E. Burge. Barbara J. Heath.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Coan Hall is a 17th-century multicomponent site along the Coan River in Northumberland County, Virginia. John Mottrom and members of his household were the first English colonists in the area, moving into the homelands of the Sekakawon. By the time of Mottrom’s death in 1655, a manor house, plantation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Williamson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Smithsonian Environmental Archaeology Laboratory explores the growth and decline of factory-scale shell-button making in portions of Delaware and Maryland. Discovery of two new sites provides a more comprehensive view of the short-lived industry and supports hypotheses concerning the scale of the activity and the shift in raw...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry P. Brock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Materialities of (Un)Freedom: Examining the Material Consequences of Inequality within Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In his 1829 Appeal, David Walker argued for African Americans citizenship, asking, "will they drive us from our property and homes, which we have earned with our blood?" The Appeal was part of a larger resistance in Black political thought against the racist political...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Ziobro. Richard Veit.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Parker Homestead in Little Silver, NJ, housed the Parker family from 1665-1995. It is the perfect setting for thoughtful conversations about Elusive and Enduring Freedoms. For example, the site sits just 20 miles from the famed Monmouth Battlefield, in a county that saw plenty of other skirmishes and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Delle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the aftermath of the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, profiteering vigilantes and corrupt local officials consipred to kidnap and enslave African-American people in the border states of the Mid-Atlantic. Banding together in mutual aid and vigilance societies,...