Mid-Atlantic (Geographic Keyword)
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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,...
Rending the Social Fabric: Revolution in Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1774-1779 (2022)
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...
Rest Sweet Rest: Addressing the Challenges to Preserving African American Cemeteries in an Urban Environment (2023)
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...
Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America’s Oldest Black Baptist Church (2023)
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...
The Revolutionary World of Free Black Man Jacob Francis: 1754-1836 (2022)
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...
Salubria, It's Gardens, and Extended Contexts: A Case Study of an 18th-Century Virginia Mansion (2021)
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,...
Searching the Past, but Finding Our Own Times: Germanna Archaeology Finding Its Way to Activism? (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Germanna, as a set of sites in Orange County, Virginia, has seen archaeology since the late 1960s. The goals have changed over time. Interest in the site of Alexander Spotswood’s 1720 home (which came to be known as “the Enchanted Caste”) prompted initial archaeological research. Over the course of 50 years, approaches to the site have...
"A small secluded plot of ground": Preservation of the West Campus Cemetery at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC (2022)
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...
A Tavern at Warwicktowne: Food and Function at Young's Ordinary (2022)
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...
Temporal Tourists and the Colonization of Time: Spatiotemporal Identities in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century New Jersey (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Living and the Dead: New Interpretations of Above- and Below-Ground Cultural Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Landscapes are wrought into existence by the values humans apply to them. Reciprocally, the spaces we occupy, travel to, and through craft social identities. This paper investigates the relationship between temporalities and landscapes and the implications for people...
They Looked to the Water: An Ancestor Forward Approach to Commemorating the Chancellor’s Point Burying Ground (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Chesapeake Landscapes in Transition", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 2020–2021 COVID-19 shutdown, a treefall on the edge of a bluff at the Chancellor’s Point site at Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC), Maryland partially exposed a buried ancestor of African descent. A second ancestor was found nearby interred at the base of a tall tree near the bluff’s edge. Both ancestors...
Ties That Bind: Analyzing West Ashcom's Involvement With Lord Baltimore's Manorial System (2022)
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...
Tribal Engagement in Virginia: Lessons Learned from Section 106 Consultation (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage Laws and Policies, Political Economy, and the Community Importance of Archaeological Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The erasure of Indigenous American tribal communities from the historical record on the East Coast has had long-reaching impacts on the interpretation and perception of Indigenous heritage in Virginia. The relatively recent federal recognition of seven tribes in...
Uncovering an Unusual Feature: Contextualizing Coan Hall’s Site 3 (2022)
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...
Using DNA To Connect Living People To Enslaved Ironworkers At Catoctin Furnace (2025)
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. In August 2023, “The Genetic Legacy of African Americans from Catoctin Furnace” was published in Science, demonstrating that it is possible to wed the power of massive direct-to-consumer ancestry databases with ancient DNA technology by using the first reliable approach for identifying...
Variability in Shops and Raw Materials in Delmarva’s Shell Button Industry, 1930-1990 (2022)
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...
"We have Enriched it with our Blood and Tears": Debating Citizenship and Colonization at Montpelier (2023)
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...
When the Community Becomes the Classroom: A Decades Long Partnership with the Parker Homestead-1665 (2022)
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...
"Who Would Be Free Themselves Must Strike the Blow": An Archaeology of Armed Resistance at Christiana, PA (2022)
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,...
Who’s Free Markets? Subaltern Economic Networks in Reconstruction Delmarva and the Importance of Philadelphia (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Philadelphia has always been an important cultural hub for the African American community of the Delmarva. Prior to Emancipation, there was a notable free African American population within the region, a population which began developing their own economic network during the early 19th century. This network ran parallel as a...
WWI and the Philadelphia Navy Yard: An NPS Teaching with Historic Places Lightning Lesson Plan (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. "WWI and the Philadelphia Navy Yard: Modernization of the US Navy," was completed as a public education and outreach initiative for the Philadelphia Navy Yard Annex by Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc. through the National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places program. The program highlights NRHP-listed properties across the...