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From Municipal Dumpsite to Private Liberal Arts University: Insights into the City of San Antonio from a Nineteenth-Century Midden (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The modern-day campus of Trinity University is located on a nineteenth and early twentieth century municipal dump site on what was then the margins of the city of San Antonio, Texas . The land also served as a limestone rock quarry for the Alamo Cement Company (1884-1931), a community baseball diamond, and a lover’s lane. The university bought the land and...