Rice Plantations (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David T. Palmer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "First Steps on a Long Corridor: The Gullah Geechee and the Formation of a Southern African American Landscape" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Brook Green plantation was one of the largest rice plantations in the United States prior to the Civil War, but we as yet know little about the lives of the many Captive Africans who lived and labored there. This plantation was located on property that is now...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David T. Palmer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century transformation of c. 120,000 acres of cypress and bottomland hardwood forests in the coastal region spanning southern North Carolina to northern Florida, (the Lowcountry), for commercial rice production was only possible...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren R Clark. Michael C. Murray.

As part of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, the Savannah district will construct a number of mitigation features to compensate for adverse environmental impacts. Panamerican Consultants conducted both terrestrial and submerged investigations within the Savannah River estuary. A large component of the overall project was a low water bankline survey of Steamboat Slough, as well as Middle and Little Back Rivers, which recorded a total of 116 sites. Associated with the rice plantation...