Rural Black Communities (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin P. Carter.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Vast tracts of forest were cut down and converted into charcoal to fuel the iron industry of the United States during the 19th century. These landscapes tended to occupy "waste lands"- hilly, rocky, and poorly-watered (i.e., nonarable) land. Once used, the land was a tangled patchwork of brambles, scrub brush and young trees. At Six Penny Creek, Pennsylvania, a small, rural Black...