Ashland Township (Geographic Keyword)
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The Cultural Resources Survey for PINs 6750.07 and 6006.08 began in September, 1978 and concluded in June, 1980. The first segment involved a partial Paragraph 3 investigation along the alternates in the two PINs. A partial report was filed with the New York State Museum dated January, 1979 which detailed the work completed and reasons for stopping work. The Public Archaeology Facility did not receive authorization in the spring of 1979 to finish work before the crops were planted. By fall of...
Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Survey, 1997 Highway Program, PIN 6066.41.122, NYS Route 17 Access, Town of Ashland and, Hamlet of Lowman, Chemung County, New York (1997)
This project was contracted in advance of construction of NYS route 17 access in order to evaluate the presence of historic and prehistoric cultural resources. Background research for PIN 6066.41.122 was conducted on the environment, prehistory, and history of the Town of Ashland, Chemung County. Human occupation of the area extends to Paleoindian periods, into the historic period (in which the battle of Newton during the American Revolutionary war occured in the project area). This information...