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From USS Stars and Stripes to Metropolis (1861-present): Modeling the Life, Loss, and Archaeological Site Formation of a Currituck Beach Shipwreck (Corolla, North Carolina) (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Just a few hundred yards off Currituck Beach, North Carolina, in January of 1878, the steamship Metropolis—the former and rebuilt Union gunboat USS Stars and Stripes—ran aground while transporting 250 laborers and materials to Brazil for railroad construction. In the disaster, 85 of those on board lost their lives in full view of...