Workers Camp (Other Keyword)

1-1 (1 Record)

The Fontana Project Construction Camp: A Mid-Twentieth Century Appalachia Workers’ Camp (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly L Higgins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the summer of 2022, New South Associates conducted a Phase I survey in the vicinity of the Fontana Dam and Fontana Village Resort. The survey area was the location of the 1940s Fontana Project Construction Camp, which housed approximately 2,000 unmarried workers and included dormitories, tents, a cafeteria, and numerous...