California central coast (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex DeGeorgey. Ethan Bertrando.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological study at CA-SLO-568H in Camp San Luis Obispo uncovered a late 19th century homestead with unique features. Notably, a small stone oven was discovered, believed to have been used for distilling whiskey. Historical records of the Irish-descended landowners...