Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Jacobucci.

Nineteen soil samples from Site B, an early nineteenth-century site located in Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest (Virginia) were submitted to the Fiske Center for palynological analysis. Over 100 distinct taxa were recovered from the eleven samples that were considered to be well preserved enough to allow for a representative reconstruction of past environmental conditions. When viewed collectively, the recovered taxa describe a landscape consisting of both managed ornamental grounds and areas of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

The Front Entrance Survey, conducted in 2009 on Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest property in Forest, Bedford County, Virginia, detected an area with high concentrations of prehistoric artifacts. Charred nutshell and charcoal fragments collected from Feature E, exposed in Unit ER5700/1, were submitted for identification and subsequent AMS radiocarbon age determination.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 37 lies on the property of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest in the city of Forest, Bedford County, Virginia. Prior to construction of a new entrance road a site was detected on the western bank of Machine Branch, a small drainage that runs between the Upper and Middle Fields (Jack Gary, personal communication July 29, 2015). Three charcoal samples from two test pits were submitted for identification and subsequent AMS radiocarbon age determination.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Trigg.

Forty-nine flotation samples from Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest (Virginia) were submitted to the Fiske Center for macrobotanical analysis. Researchers at Poplar Forest hoped to learn more about historic land management practices through the examination and identification of over six hundred charred wood specimens taken from features identified as planting stains or root holes. While many pieces of wood were unidentifiable due to small size and poor preservation, the overall data suggest the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jessica Bowes. Heather Trigg.

Macrobotanicals were analyzed from a sub-floor pit in a 19th century slave cabin located at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest plantation (Virginia) during the tenure of the Hutter family as plantation owners. The thousands of seed and wood remains recovered illustrate that the slaves’ main subsistence strategies were provisioning, or receiving food from the plantation owner, production, or growing their own food, and the procurement of wild resources. These various subsistence strategies...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman.

Ten phytolith samples were examined from a Jefferson-era layer in an area believed to be associated with a clump of ornamental trees and bushes planted in 1812 at the northeast corner of the octagonal house located at Poplar Forest plantation in Forest, Virginia. An oval flower bed planted with dwarf roses was established nearby. Four additional phytolith samples were taken from features directly associated with the ornamental tree clump and flower bed. For this study, phytolith analysis was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Outside of the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson constructed his Poplar Forest retreat house near the center of his Bedford County plantation in 1806. A large carriage turnaround in front of the north side of the main octagonal portion of the house, as well as the surrounding five acres of grounds, were planted with ornamental landscaping. A circular road lined with trees bounded the property. Archaeological investigations of the turnaround have exposed various features associated...