Lake Michigan (Other Keyword)
1-3 (3 Records)
Often overlooked in the story of the westward settlement of America, transportation of passengers and cargo through the Great Lakes and northern river systems accounted for a substantial volume of migrant travel. From the mid-1800s through the 1930s, passenger steamers on the Great Lakes were designed to combine luxury and speed. The Goodrich Transit Company, for example, was one of the longest operating (1856-1933) and most successful passenger steamship lines on the Great Lakes. Passage on the...
Kankakee Marsh Lifeways, Phase III Data Recovery, Northwest Indiana (2016)
Site 12LA0091 represents a unique archaeological setting in northwest Indiana. Located south of Lake Michigan on a sandy dune remnant situated topographically above the historic Kankakee Marsh, this prehistoric site has yielded invaluable information in understanding regional prehistoric subsistence activities from the Late Archaic to Upper Mississippian periods. A recent Phase III data recovery effort has provided data that can help refine the prehistoric chronological framework for northwest...
Shipwreck Preserves and Cultural Heritage in Southern Lake Michigan (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. Spanning less than 50 miles of Lake Michigan coastline, the State of Indiana has the smallest territorial waters of any Great Lakes states with only 225 square miles of bottomland. Indiana’s small coastline represents a wealth of maritime heritage and culture that has shaped the history of Northern Indiana and one of the most...