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Archaeology at the Dog River site has uncovered a series of plantations dating from the mid-1720s to 1848. Originally the home of the Charles Rochon family, the site was successively occupied by Charles' son Pierre and his family and by families related to the Rochons by marriage -- the Goudeaus and Demouys -- then finally by the Montgomery and Hollinger families during the American period, 1830-1848. HIstorical and archaeolgical evidence also indicates substantial occupations by the Chato...
Excavation Photos from the Dog River Plantation Site (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama. (1994)
A collection of site photos showing excavations at the Dog River Plantation (1MB161). Also included is a color photo of glass beads found at the site.
Field Specimen Catalog for the Dog River Plantation (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama (2000)
Field Specimen Catalog for the Dog River Plantation (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama.
Glass Beads from the Dog River Plantation (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama. (2000)
Glass trade beads recovered from the Dog River Plantation (1MB161) site.
Phase II Archaeological Testing at 1MB161, the Dog River Site, for a Proposed Fish Camp on Dog River, Mobile County, Alabama. (2007)
Phase II archaeological testing was conducted on a portion of 1MB161, the Dog River site, for a proposed fish camp on the south shore of Dog River, Mobile County, Alabama. Excavations uncovered several small colonial building remains, including a pieux-en-terre style French colonial building that may have housed slaves working on the Rochon plantation.
Plantation Archaeology at Riviere Aux Chiens, ca 1725-1848 (2000)
When the French began colonizing the Mobile Bay area early in 1702, one of the first places they explored was a small estuary on the western shore, Riviere aux Chiens or Dog River. A patch of ground near the river's mouth, about twenty feet higher than the adjacent expansive marshes, attracted their attention. There, on the south bank. the expedition's leader, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, had his men construct a warehouse as a way station for the crews of small sailing craft that would ferry...