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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mortuary Monuments and Archaeology: Current Research" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017, the Cultural Resource Survey Program at the New York State Museum conducted a CRM survey prior to highway construction along the front edge of the Elbridge Rural Cemetery. Some of the first pioneers of the town of Elbridge, including several Revolutionary War veterans are buried in this nondenominational cemetery....
Less Than Human: The Institutional Origins of the Medical Waste Recovered at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Poor Laws enacted in the early 19th-century condemned the most destitute to confinement in almshouses, poor farms, and workhouses. These laws paralleled contemporary Anatomy Acts that turned the 'unclaimed' dead from those institutions over to medical facilities for dissection. In essence, pauperism became punishable by anatomization. Thus, dissection served the dual purpose of...
Long Dead But Not Forgotten: The Hidden Details of Rural Family Cemeteries (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Rural family cemeteries are ubiquitous across the United States and, while they have been intensively studied, there is still a great deal to learn about these resources from an archaeological and burial practice perspective. Rural family cemeteries can also reflect the economic, social, ethnic and cultural heritage of a...
Lost Angeles: A Necrogeographical Analysis of the City of Angels' Forgotten Cemeteries (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "California: Post-1850s Consumption and Use Patterns in Negotiated Spaces" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Phases of development and renewal in the historic core of Los Angeles continue to reveal burials associated with the city’s defunct graveyards. The locations of these forgotten cemeteries reflects an evolving urban landscape, elucidaing changes in how people organize their social and physical landscapes...
Marine Shell from Burials in St. Henry’s Cemetery (11S1742), East St. Louis, IL (1866-1908) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the 19th century, East St. Louis attracted immigrants to work in its centers of industry and was a hub for westward expansion. St. Henry’s Cemetery in East St. Louis, Illinois was the prominent Catholic cemetery within the area, serving the community from 1866-1908. Supposedly relocated by 1926, the cemetery site was then developed into a National Guard...
Mary Rests Upon the Hill: A Glimpse of 1845 From the Outskirts of Early Atlanta (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Cemeteries and Burial Practices" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mary Williams passed away in 1845 at age 20 and was buried in a small family cemetery along the Chattahoochee River in what was formerly DeKalb and is now Fulton County, Georgia. There are few historical records chronicling her short life or the community that laid her to rest. Surviving documents were examined to learn about Mary and her world. ...
Medical Practices and Teaching Specimens: A Review of Skeletal Modifications Associated with Medical Intervention and the Educational Use of Human Remains, with Application to Subadult Individuals from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2017)
From life to death and beyond the grave, the bodies of the individuals buried at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery have been vulnerable to the actions and authority of medical professionals. Medical procedures and the implementation of human remains for training purposes are two forms of culturally-sanctioned skeletal modifications detected among the juvenile remains recovered from the 1991-1992 Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery excavations. This paper presents the results of a...
Memory and Engagement with Sacred Ground: the many publics of Mount Vernon's African-American Cemetery (2018)
In 2013, Mount Vernon's archaeology department began a long term research project to locate the graves of enslaved and emancipated individuals interred within the African-American cemetery on the home quarter of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. Four years deep, dozens of graves have been reclaimed from new growth forest and the cemetery has taken on new life as a touchstone of memory and an interpretive vehicle for a diverse array of descendants, scholars, and visitors to the historic...
Methods of Geophysical Testing (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Application of Geophysical Techniques to Military Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lockhart cemetery is located within the Missouri Army National Guard’s Macon Training Site, Macon Missouri. The cemetery is located within the eastern half of Site 23MC1586, a site recorded within the Northwest section of the Macon Training Site. The western half of the site has foundation remains with historic deposits...
Milwaukee's Common Grave: Spatial Distribution and Compositional Characteristics of Multiple Interments in a Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Potter's Field (2017)
Initially established for burial of the city’s unclaimed, indigent, and institutionalized, the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery quickly became a convenient disposal venue for city institutions such as the Milwaukee Medical College, Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Milwaukee County Coroner’s Office. Excavations at the site in 1991-1992 and 2013 revealed a unique subset of burials containing the partial remains of multiple individuals, many of whom show evidence of autopsy and...
Mind the Gap: Laws and Policies Related to Burial Places in Pennsylvania (2018)
Pennsylvania has a long history of human occupation and an array of community types and settlement patterns ranging from large cities to sparsely populated rural communities. This geographic and cultural diversity resulted in varying burial practices including small family plots in farm fields, religious burial grounds, as well as private and publicly-owned cemeteries. As the state grew and changed throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, the legislature enacted or revised laws affecting...
Minnesota’s Historic Human Remains Project: Research Methods and the Identities of Human Skeletal Remains (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017 the Minnesota legislature awarded a Legacy grant to fund the Historic Human Remains Project. The intent of the project was to identity human skeletal remains discovered in disturbed, undocumented graves, identify living descendants (if possible), and facilitate the reburial process. In certain circumstances, human remains not of American Indian ancestry fall under the...
Mixed burials and commingled human remains recovered from the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Poor Farm Cemetery (2015)
From the mid-1800s to its abandonment in 1974, the MCIG Poor Farm Cemetery in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin served as a burial place for institutional residents, unidentified or unclaimed individuals from the Coroner's Office, and the community poor and indigent. Previous excavations at the cemetery in 1991 and 1992 recovered 1649 individuals in predominantly single interments with an occasional extraneous body part representing incidental amputation or autopsy. The 2013 excavations at the site yielded...
Mortality and Calamity: Catastrophes, Death, and Burials in St. Croix (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As an island living under colonial rule for almost 400 years, St. Croix has faced many injustices. Its geographical location and climate contribute to a growing list of events, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and epidemics, that have deadly effects on the population. Using burial notices published in the St. Croix Avis, demographic data recorded from graves in Christiansted Cemetery, and...
Mortality profile of the St. Croix Leper Hospital (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Danish government established a leper hospital on the island of St. Croix in 1888 that operated until 1954. This research focuses on the healthcare and mortality of the St. Croix Leper Hospital residents. To establish a mortality profile for the resident population, name, age, and date of death for 240 residents from burial notices published in the St. Croix Avis newspapers from 1889...
The Multivalent Meanings of Shoes Within Historic American Mortuary Contexts (1702 to the early 20th century) (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Aside from their practical use, shoes have powerful symbolic meanings as items necessary for the journey of death (Puckett 1926), and they are often regarded as “magically-charged items” (Davidson, 2010). This study focuses on the inclusion of shoes in mortuary contexts in the United States. My sample is constructed using a...
Nearly Gone but Not Forgotten: Reclaiming African American Heritage in Rural Southern Cemeteries (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cemeteries serve as places for descendant populations to gather, remember past events, and celebrate past lives. How then do such places become abandoned and forgotten? The 4AC project (Ayden African American Ancestral Cemetery) investigates the processes that led to the abandonment of a large African American cemetery....
Not Forgotten: Personal Touches in Mortuary Treatment at Asylum Hill (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. From 1855 to 1935, the Mississippi State Asylum occupied a tract of land north of downtown Jackson. Graves discovered during construction in 1992 and 2012 on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus represent a burial ground established for patients who died in the asylum. The current cemetery excavation has found ample...
Not Your Average Pine Box: A Glimpse Into 19th Century Coffin Wood From The First Presbyterian Church In Kensington (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1816, the First Presbyterian Church in Kensington purchased lots along Montgomery Avenue for use as a cemetery. The burial ground was active from 1818 to 1841, but the church obtained a relocation permit in 1857 and sold the land to the City of Philadelphia in 1861. Today, a section of the former cemetery...
OAHP Historic Structure Inventory, Cemetery and Building 1-Building T50, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (1980)
A group of historic structure inventory forms and photographs for Fort Sam Houston, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. Types of buildings with inventory forms and accompanying photographs include: a pet cemetery, grave sites, gates at Grayson Street, film vault and workshop, tents, post headquarters building, officers' quarters, garages, storage and storerooms, warehouses, terminal equipment building, bandstand, snack bar, blue print room, army headquarters building, Pershing house, San Antonio...
Objects past, objects present: materials, resistance and memory from the Le Morne Old Cemetery, Mauritius (2015)
The body of literature on slave artefacts and consumptive waste highlight the nuances and complexity of slave life-ways. Despite this, these represent small concessions traded against much greater losses, with the notion of ‘social death’ poignantly expressing a slave’s inevitable disconnect from ancestral practices. Allied to this, but fundamentally different, is the development of numerous syncretic belief systems that have their origins in a marriage between African and European faiths. Thus,...
Open-Source Approaches to Documenting and Sharing Historical Cemeteries (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Recent Directions in Florida’s Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The rapid growth of digital and virtual technologies results in a potentially bewildering array of choices regarding the documentation and publication of publicly accessible heritage content. This paper examines tools for digitally documenting and sharing virtual versions of two historical cemeteries in Florida; the...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Recovering Three Cemeteries From the Outer Boroughs (2018)
HPI studied the Northern Cemetery of the Staten Island Quarantine Grounds, where patients from the Marine Hospital were buried in the mid-nineteenth century. The stories of immigrant inmates and caregivers at the facility provide a glimpse of the desperation experienced by those confined within. In 1858, nearby residents burned the Quarantine buildings to the ground to rid the community of "pestilence" and "miasma" associated with the hospital. HPI disinterred intact and partial burials from...
Paper Tiger: Historic Newspaper Text from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Material Culture Collection (2017)
The Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC) is located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. This historic cemetery was in use from 1878 to 1974 and interred Milwaukee County’s indigent. The individuals represented consist mostly of poor European immigrants, subsequent generations, institutionalized residents, and the unclaimed deceased. Included in the array material culture recovered during 1991-1992 and 2013 archaeological excavations are newspaper fragments. These primary documents survive in varying...
The Paradise of Memory: Florida's Historic Cemeteries (2018)
Nowhere else in our society are we as cognizant of the cultural landscape of our communities as in our historic cemeteries. Burying grounds are not merely components of a community’s physical landscape, but they also reflect the community over time. Markers and monuments are often the only structures that survive as physical testaments to individuals. Florida’s cemeteries are the repositories of last statements and speak to both the individual and collective cultural makeup of the communities...