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This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 3: Material Culture and Site Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Renewed interest in the Transcontinental Railroad has resurfaced with the coming arrival of the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the line on May 10, 2019. Partnering with the Bureau of Land Management's Salt Lake Field Office, the Utah Division of State History has coordinated new efforts investigating the story in and around...
Phase 3 Archeological Data Retrieval, Champlain Hudson Power Express, CHPE Site 4 - Gansevoort, 09114.000064, WA048, CP Rail- Segments 4 & 5, Package 3, Gansevoort, Town of Northumberland, Saratoga County, New York. HAA 4268-PH3, SHPO 09PR03910 (2024)
The Phase 3 Archeological Data Retrieval for the CHPE Site 4 (09114.000064) was accomplished at the end of July 2023. The archeological work at CHPE Site 4 documented traces of the 1870 construction of a passenger depot for the Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad, along with objects related to the use of the passenger depot, its remodeling in 1880, and its removal in 1937. The presence of a buried cistern feature attached to the depot indicates that the railroad had an interest in providing...
Post-Construction Chinese Worker Housing on the Central Pacific Railroad: 1870-1900 (2017)
The construction of the first Transcontinental Railroad in the world, from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, was one fraught with difficulties, involving tens of thousands of workers. When it was completed in May 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) portion of the line, between Ogden, Utah and Sacramento, California, retained many ethnic Chinese workers for operations and maintenance work. Housing for workers during construction was not consistent, however after construction the...
Railroads, America, and the Formative Period of Historical Archaeology: A Documentary and Photographic Investigation into the Historic Preservation Movement (2016)
The twentieth century, the formative period of historical archaeology, is marked by an ideological shift from the fervent consumerism and industrialism of the nineteenth century, towards a growing institutional concern for the nation’s finite natural and historical resources. A focused case study of twentieth century railroad stations highlights various themes pertinent to the discussion of the role of historical archaeology in the Historic Preservation Movement, which focuses on preservation...
The Road to Wealth: How the EP & NE Railroad Changed New Mexico (2017)
The EP & NE rail system in New Mexico was built between1898 and 1903. This railroad system immediately became a critical economic force, opening an uninhabited frontier of deserts and mountain forests to exploitation. The EP & NE system also comprised an immense sociopolitical machine that controlled vast lands, timber and mineral resources, water rights, and towns. This talk discusses the historical context for the railroad, and its impact on the settlement of eastern New Mexico. Archeological...
Texas' 10 Most Endangered Historic Properties (1992)
A pamphlet published in 1992 by the Texas Preservation Trust. The pamphlet gives a historical overview of Texas' 10 most endangered historic properties.
Transcontinental Railroad as a Landscape not a Ribbon (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transitioning from Commemoration to Analysis on the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah: Papers in Honor and Memory of Judge Michael Wei Kwan" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When historians and archaeologists typically analyze a historic railroad, the frame of reference generally rests on the railroad line itself, and those few and scattered places where workers lived during construction and maintenance. A...
United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) Resources
Project metadata for resources within the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) cultural heritage resources collection.
What Have We Here?: Discovery at the UTA District Depot Project in Salt Lake City, Utah (2016)
In July 2014, the construction of the Utah Transit Authority’s Depot District Service Center project in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, uncovered foundations and associated cultural materials from the historic Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad train maintenance facilities (42SL718). Initially, the foundations provided far more questions about how the rail facility evolved than they answered. Subsequent monitoring and archaeological data recovery uncovered several incarnations of the rail...