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Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive cultural resources survey and evaluative testing of the 22 acre Battery Gaillard Tract (TMS 355-13-00-001), Lots 49 and 50 of the Magnolia Ranch subdivision (TMS 355-09-00-079 and 355-09-00-080, respectively), as well as a 1.4 acre marsh lot (TMS 355-09-00-092) in Charleston County, South Carolina in April and July 2004. These investigations involved background research, systematic shovel testing, ground penetrating radar survey, and...
CULTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY OF THE SILVER BLUFF-NORTH AUGUSTA 115kV TRANSMISSION LINE, AIKEN COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA (2009)
"This study reports on an intensive cultural resources survey of an approximately 12 mile corridor in Aiken County, South Carolina. The work was conducted to assist Central Electric Power Cooperative comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the regulations codified in 36CFR800."
Determination of Burial Locations Using Soil Analyses at the Loyola Plantation in French Guiana, 1668-1763 (2017)
Our paper discusses the approach used to determine the location of burials in an equatorial environment where organic preservation is nil. Before using the space of the plantation cemetery to preserve the memory of the enslaved who lived at the plantation we had to demonstrate the extant of the cemetery using soil analyses. Memory of that period is a fleeting souvenir among local residents and we want to use archaeology to address issues with which they are confronted in order for them to...
A Discussion of Eighteenth-Century Coffins from the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia Cemetery (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (1707-1859) cemetery was incompletely relocated in 1859 prior to the parcel’s sale to a manufacturer of felt hats. Discovered by developers below a 20th century parking lot, the remaining section of the cemetery contained the graves of over 400 individuals. Early church membership rolls...
Documenting the Seneca Stonecutter’s Cemetery (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located in Poolesville, Maryland just west of Seneca Creek is the Seneca Stonecutter’s Cemetery—locally referred to as the “Clipper” Cemetery in reference to a surname on several of the headstones. While there are no trails or markers leading to the cemetery which lies on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, this cemetery has long been recognized as an early African...
"A Dread Bleak, Desolate Place," The Archaeology of Tucson's Court Street Cemetery (2025)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The town of Tucson, Arizona opened a new cemetery at the north edge of town in 1875. Over the next 34 years over 8,000 individuals were buried in what is today called the Court Street Cemetery. Newspapers described the cemetery in unflattering articles, primarily because the hard soil and lack of water prevented the planting of decorative greenery. Area businessmen and the Catholic Church...
Early Medieval Landscapes of the Dead: the monumental Pictish barrows of North-East Scotland (2015)
During the 5th and 6th centuries the dead become more visible in the landscapes of eastern Scotland. Elaborate square and circular burial mounds were constructed to commemorate certain members of society, possibly a newly emerging elite. These barrows are often sited along ridges and form grouped, sometimes linear distributions in the landscape. Few have been excavated and most are known through aerial photography alone.This paper presents some of the results from a project that consolidated and...
Environmental Analysis of the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg (2024)
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 1805 the congregation of Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church established their first permanent building on a marginal piece of land within the city limits. The church, composed of enslaved and free Blacks, worshipped in two different structures here for 150 years and established a cemetery that was used in the first half of the...
Ethics In A Small Town: Columbia Street Cemetery Project In Springfield, Ohio (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Springfield, Ohio, the Columbia Street Cemetery (CSC) Project is a joint initiative by the Turner Foundation, concerned citizens of Springfield, and Wittenberg University’s History and Archaeology programs. The aim of the project is to document and study the city’s oldest cemetery, which dates to the 1820s. The cemetery sits at the center of the city’s downtown, which is part of...
The Evolution of Mortuary Artifact Assemblages from Historic Cemeteries in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mortuary artifact assemblages, including materials used to mark grave locations, hardware used in the construction of coffins and caskets, and items used to clothe and decorate the dead, range temporally, geographically, and culturally based on a variety of factors, including manufacturing advancements, access to goods, and...
The Evolution of the Arch Street Project (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Arch Street Project: Multidisciplinary Research of a Philadelphia Cemetery" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In late 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that human remains were uncovered at a local construction site, 218 Arch Street, formerly the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (FBCP) cemetery. Over the course of 2017 three phases of excavation ranging from extreme salvage to controlled CRM excavation took...
Examining Child Mortality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Northern Idaho (2018)
This poster documents infant and child mortality in northern Idaho during the late 19th and early 20th centuries using historic cemeteries as a starting point for data collection. This project involved locating and photographing the oldest headstones associated with children and infants interred in Idaho’s Moscow Cemetery. The sample was limited to children and infants under 11 years old who died prior to 1921. By examining Moscow Cemetery’s headstones, the project researchers were able to...
Families Inside and Out: Family Relationships and Institutional Healthcare at a Leper Hospital in St. Croix, USVI (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1888 to 1954, the Danish colonial and later US governments of St. Croix operated a leper hospital on the island. Residents were often admitted for extended periods of time with many living there for decades prior to death and burial in the Christiansted Cemetery. Throughout their residency, patients likely formed family-like relationships within the hospital community and maintained...
First a Burial Ground, then a Parade Ground, then a Park, then a Revelation (2018)
Washington Square Park in New York City’s historic Greenwich Village is a prime example of a burying ground that is now a beloved urban park. In 2005, renovations to this historical park in a Landmark district required archaeology. That the park was a former Potter’s Field, by definition, the final resting place of the indigent and unknown, was recognized by the New York City Parks Department and local history buffs. The question was, did burials from the cemetery years (1797 to 1825) remain?...
Foul weather friends and allies: Considering NC Coastal Cemetery Management (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bridging the Land and the Sea: Documenting and Assessing Climate Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Heritage", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The NC OSA has recently completed fieldwork for the NC Coastal Historic Cemetery Survey Project. This research, funded through a NPS Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund grant, was designed to identify, document, and assess the condition of historical...
From Paper to Stone: Liverpool Stonemasons’ Illustrations, their Memorials, and the National and Transatlantic Trade in Cemetery Monuments (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During research into Liverpool’s nineteenth-century cemeteries, archives held by Liverpool City Council relating to Toxteth Park Cemetery (established in 1856) were catalogued, resulting in the discovery of historically significant documents. Alongside early plans of...
Gainer Historical Cemetery: A Modern Reconnection to a "Lost" Cultural Landscape Not Actually Forgotten. (2013)
The African American Gainer Historical Cemetery is located along the border of Washington and Bay Counties in Florida’s panhandle. An African American community has utilized this liminal space since the arrival of settlers in 1825. The cemetery contains evidence of the persistent use of old African-style customs, such as the utilization of traditional funerary material culture. Conflict and migration in the 19th and 20th centuries physically distanced the freedmen and their descendants from...
German Gravemarkers and Cultural Retention (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Germans from the Palatinate region in Germany continually immigrated to various regions of the United States from the 1720s until 1910s. Particularly significant regions are Western Pensylvania, the Missouri River Valley in Central Missouri, and the Dakotas. By comparing gravestone symbology and inscriptions in these three regions, I was...
The Grave Diggers’ Lament: Early 20 th Century Solutions to a Loose Sediment Predicament (2017)
Early 20th century excavators had to contend with loose, sandy sediments when digging the graves at the Scott Family Cemetery in Dallas. More than a century later, archaeologists had to find solutions for the same problem while moving that cemetery. Even with advances in technology and methodology, the pitfalls and solutions were surprisingly similar. The archaeologists found evidence that the original excavators shored the walls with wood, stepped the shafts, and had to dig the holes larger...
Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Portions of the Old White Meeting House Cemetery (2007)
"In June 2007, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey of portions of the Old White Meeting House Cemetery in an effort to mitigate any adverse effects on archaeological resources that may result from the proposed widening of SC Route 642 (Dorchester Road). This work was conducted through Davis & Floyd, Inc., for the Dorchester County Sales Tax Authority (DCTA) in advance of road improvement activities along this portion of SC Route 642. This...
Guidelines for Creating a Typology for Mass-Produced 19th and 20th Century Burial Container Hardware (2016)
The analysis and historical study of burial container hardware and other mortuary artifacts is crucial in establishing a useful discourse between the multiple lines of evidence recorded and recovered in historical cemetery investigations. Exact identification of types and styles of burial container hardware is vital in defining the chronology of burial, which is necessary in situations where grave markers have been lost or moved from their original locations. In addition, variations in hardware...
Hebrew Inscription Preservation in a Jewish Cemetery (2017)
Inscription preservation and study is an important part of heritage and historical archaeology. Particular to Jewish cemeteries and their communities is the presence of Hebrew inscriptions such as blessings, or the deceased’s Hebrew name. Our project focused specifically on comparing rates of weathering between Hebrew and English, and we hypothesized that Hebrew inscriptions decayed faster than English ones. We estimated that Hebrew inscription would decay faster because of the curvature of the...
Heritage Protection In Forgotten Spaces: the Morganza Spillway Cemeteries (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On occasion when the Mississippi River levels are too high, spillways must be opened to preserve the City of New Orleans. The Morganza Spillway can divert water into the Atchafalaya Basin. The area where the Spillway is located used to be habitable land. Construction of the spillway required that people leave the area, abandoning...
Historic Cultural Perspectives Through Cemetery Landscape (2017)
The Jewish cemetery in Victoria, BC is home to approximately 300 interments and is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Canada and the second largest in western Canada. This study explores the Jewish community of Victoria during its earlier period of use from 1914 – 1918 using four individuals from a variety of economic, social, political, and gender specific backgrounds. The goal of this research was to investigate the biographies of four people buried at Emanu-El cemetery who died during the...
Historic Landscape Inventory for U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (Legacy 94-210)
This historic context of West Point emphasizes changes in its landscape and identifies the different stages of landscape change as defined by military mission and historical process, enabling the establishment of accurate historic district boundaries. The document provides guidance on the development of a historic landscape management plan.