Logging, Environmental Change (Other Keyword)

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The Excavations at Frost Town: Public Archaeology at a 19th Century Logging Settlement (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Smith. Nathan Hayes. Vincent Feucht. Chris Matagne.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cumming Nature Center of Naples, New York contains a significant portion of the remains of a 19th century logging settlement, once known as Frost Town. The site, home to many Euro-American settlers throughout the 19th century, saw the rapid rise of a logging-based economy associated with the growing industrialization of Western New York, following the...