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DOCUMENT Citation Only John P. McCarthy.

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. There was a significantly greater occurrence of African-influenced or Creolized burial practices at the later of two cemeteries used by Philadelphia’s First African Baptist Church in the early nineteenth-century. Given that the process of laying the dead to rest represents a special social moment where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenn Ogborne.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections Part III" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, the Department of Archaeology and Landscapes at Poplar Forest completed excavations of an oval planting bed in front of Thomas Jefferson’s retreat home. These excavations abutted at least three previous projects. This central oval bed was framed by two additional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raquel Fleskes. David Brown. Theodore Schurr.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. DNA sampling from human remains is becoming a common practice in archeological studies, as genetic data provide important insights into ancestry and kinship in burial settings. To ensure the authenticity of ancient DNA results, contamination of human remains with DNA from living people must be minimized. Here, we describe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mozelle R. Shamash-Rosenthal. Thomas J. Kutys.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2015 and 2016 AECOM conducted archaeological investigations at the site of the Centennial Exposition Japanese Bazaar in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. These investigations both revealed the presence of intact features associated with the 1876 Japanese Bazaar structure and recovered artifacts associated with the operation of the bazaar during the exhibition. The bazaar was sponsored...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Baicy. Michael Clem.

On behalf of the Virginia Department of Transportation and Fort A.P. Hill, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., conducted a Phase I archaeological survey and Phase II evaluation of Site 44CE0085 in Caroline County, Virginia, for the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) (UPC NO: CSC 1211001, code 5012680, VDHR File No. 2014-0492). The purpose of this project was to survey the mapped location of Site 44CE0085, also known as the Garrett Farm, and determine the potential for intact subsurface...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hank Lutton. Jesse Harris.

On behalf of the Fort A.P. Hill Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., conducted an archaeological survey and evaluation within the Garrett Farm Site (44CE0085) in Caroline County, Virginia. The Garrett Farm Site is the location of John Wilkes Booth’s apprehension and death. The focus of this investigation was the predicted location of Richard Garrett’s tobacco barn, which was burned during the capture and fatal shooting of John Wilkes Booth on April 26,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine M Ames.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology in the Community:15 Years of Archaeology Service", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Kalorama Park, in Northwest, Washington, D.C, was the subject for the inaugural D.C. Archaeology Month poster for 2024, spearheaded by Archaeology in the Community. Park investigations have provided information about the 19th century Little Estate, the family that resided there and including the formerly enslaved....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kimberlee Moran.

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. Archaeological projects that involve or encounter human remains must navigate a multitude of ethical considerations. Several established ethical frameworks can guide archeological decision-making when working in such contexts. This paper addresses the 2017 excavation of the First Baptist Church of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian Glusing. Kay Simpson.

After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the ill-fated escape effort of John Wilkes Booth ended in Virginia on the doorstep of Richard Garrett, where Booth was shot by pursuing federal forces and died on April 26, 1865. Garrett’s Farm, frequently the subject of Booth-related intrigue, was purchased in 1940 by the U.S. Army and is part of Fort A.P. Hill, an Army training installation. Although Garrett’s house and other structures are long gone, the former Garrett house site is now...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Skylar Secord.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sparsely researched in the historical laboratory setting, clinker and slag as artifactual materials are abundant in the archaeological record. In the niche research and reports that mention these small things, definitions, descriptions, and categorizations vary. Together, these often-forgotten waste materials can offer a “ground-up” interpretation of the use of furnaces or metallurgical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas A. Crist. Anna Delaney. Stuart E. Alexander.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“A Little Grass and Earth Thrown in to fill up the Grave”: Archaeological studies of American War for Independence burial spaces", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The first conference on “conflict archaeology” was held 25 years ago. Since then, the study of battlefields has provided unique but incomplete insights into the nature of large-scale violence and warfare technology. Bioarchaeology helps to complete...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Davis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Decolonizing Archaeology: On the Global Heritage of Epistemic Laziness, Rizvi (2015) introduced a concept called the epistemic injustice double-bind regarding an archaeologist’s position as translators of cultural materials, stewards and advocates for historic sites and populations, both past and present. The double-bind we find...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Katz. Robert Wanner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Come, Tell Us How You Lived: 50 Years of Research at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent excavations at two worker houses at Catoctin Furnace in Western Maryland generated many tobacco and alcohol related artifacts. The disparity in assemblages between the two houses appears to reflect economic and social class distinctions within the industrial village, even among workers in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly A Morrell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (1707-1859) cemetery was incompletely relocated in 1859 prior to the parcel’s sale to a manufacturer of felt hats. Discovered by developers below a 20th century parking lot, the remaining section of the cemetery contained the graves of over 400 individuals. Early church membership rolls...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Simpson.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located in Poolesville, Maryland just west of Seneca Creek is the Seneca Stonecutter’s Cemetery—locally referred to as the “Clipper” Cemetery in reference to a surname on several of the headstones. While there are no trails or markers leading to the cemetery which lies on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, this cemetery has long been recognized as an early African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brigid M. Ogden. Barbara J. Heath.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early 17th century, European colonists introduced new livestock and agricultural practices to Virginia which developed into unique management and farming practices. These practices had significant influence on the development of environmental and cultural spheres of interaction within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack A Gary.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1805 the congregation of Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church established their first permanent building on a marginal piece of land within the city limits. The church, composed of enslaved and free Blacks, worshipped in two different structures here for 150 years and established a cemetery that was used in the first half of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefan F. Woehlke. Justin Mohammadi. Amir King. Olivia Meoni. Evan Dame.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The activist roots of North Brentwood, Maryland, were planted by its founders. The Randall Family purchased the first lot in 1891 to dodge the racial housing covenants that were spreading through neighboring developments. Decades later, North Brentwood became the first incorporated Black town in Washington D.C.’s metropolitan area, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Glass. Patricia Samford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Salvage excavations during the 1980 construction of the Federal Reserve Bank in Baltimore, Maryland identified structural features and a privy pit associated with a late 19th-century home for the elderly run by African American congregations of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The home was almost entirely supported through church...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian C Burrow.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the colonists of New Netherland there was of course no “New Jersey”. Rather there was a mostly poorly known, although readily crossed, landmass separating the North and South River foci of Dutch activity. This study provides an archaeological context for the identification and evaluation of pre-1664 Dutch...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail G Kennedy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Come, Tell Us How You Lived: 50 Years of Research at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Two worker houses at Catoctin Furnace, the Forgeman’s House (18FR1043) and Hoke House (18FR1195) yielded dietary remains in the form of floral and faunal material. This analysis evaluates a sample of these dietary data alongside transaction records from the local store ledger. The results of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew R. Virta.

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. A major rehabilitation project was undertaken from 2017-2020 at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, a National Park Service site preserving portions of an antebellum plantation in Arlington County, Virginia. The site includes the mansion, dependencies, and immediate grounds constructed between 1802 and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer A. Lupu. Mia L. Carey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1985, archaeologists excavated the yard areas of Halcyon House, a national historical site located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Thousands of artifacts, spanning over a century, were unearthed before the project was prematurely terminated. The artifacts remained untouched in storage for nearly 30 years. This...

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This project includes archaeological reports and analysis by Cultural Resource Analysists, Inc. from archaeological fieldwork conducted at the Garrett Farm Site (44CE0085), in Caroline County, Virginia. The Garrett Farm Site is the location of John Wilkes Booth’s apprehension and death.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Lavin. Jamie May.

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. Jamestown Rediscovery recently expanded “Gentleman Soldiers,” an original installation in the Voorhees Archaearium archaeology museum. Since the museum’s opening in 2006, the team has recovered scores of personal arms, armor, and accoutrements that belonged to Jamestown’s upper class. These...