Delaware River (Other Keyword)

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Oak and Bluestone: Resource Extraction, Agriculture, and Economy in the Catskills (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordon D Loucks.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper evaluates existing data and collections from compliance based archaeological studies located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Over the course of European settlement, the economy in this region has been based almost entirely in agriculture and resource extraction to...


Rafts on the East Branch: An Archaeology of Industry Along the Delaware River (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordon D Loucks.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents an exploration of the industrial and manufacturing history of the East Branch of the Delaware River. Industries that were common in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries along the Delaware include lumber camps, tanneries, mills, furniture factories, and other forest based and agricultural...