Nate Harrison (Other Keyword)
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Historical accounts of famed San Diego pioneer Nate Harrison (ca. 1833-1920), a former enslaved African-American from the antebellum South, underwent meaningful transformations during the 20th century. Secondary narratives of the region’s first African-American homesteader grew into some of the county’s most popular and exotic legends. Local authors repeatedly altered specific details of Harrison’s emancipation, longevity, living quarters, and other related biographical phenomena, resulting in...
Historical and Archaeological Investigations into late 19th and early 20th century bee keeping at San Diego County’s Nathan Harrison site and beyond (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. During the late 19th century, San Diego County became the largest honey-producer in the state, and California led the nation in its production. This paper investigates historical, cultural, and environmental transformations in the region during a time in which drought curtailed cattle and sheep ranching and bee keeping boomed in...
The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project: Material, Methodological, and Theoretical Overviews (2018)
Ongoing research from archaeological and historical investigations into 19th-century San Diego County legend Nate Harrison (ca. 1833-1920) have revealed a wealth of insight into one of the region’s most celebrated pioneers. This paper offers an overview of the project’s most significant finds, places these ideas in context, and fosters comparisons between Harrison’s legend and the refuse uncovered at his hillside homestead. Instead of insisting that these lines of evidence be seen...
A San Diego Slave Quarters: Archaeological and Architectural Analyses of the Late 19th-and Early-20th Century Nate Harrison Cabin (2018)
The architectural footprint of the Nate Harrison cabin site is unlike the remains of any other structure found in San Diego County: past or present, rural or urban, ornate or ordinary. An examination of archaeological, historical, and photographic evidence reveals how anomalous Harrison’s home structure truly was for 19th-century southern California. While the immediate region has no architectural parallels in terms of the cabin’s size, shape, building material, orientation, and use areas...