Fort Sackville (Site Name Keyword)
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Archeological monitoring was conducted at George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (GERO) in association with proposed upgrades to natural gas and water lines. GERO has struggled over recent years with numerous leaks and breaches of their water main and irrigation systems, resulting in several emergency excavations for repair, and the long-term dormancy of whole sections of their irrigation system. The current upgrade project was designed to bring these systems up to higher standards to...
An Archeological Overview and Assessment of George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (2002)
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana, contains the archeological remnants of Fort Sackville and probably all or portions of the eighteenth-century French post established by Francois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, as well as small portions of the adjacent civilian community. The significant remains date from 1733 to 1780. During the 1930s, state and federal groups collaborated on the construction of the George Rogers Clark Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial Bridge...
Report of an Archeological Reconnaissance, Northeast Boundary, George Rogers Clark National Historic Park (1997)
In August 1997, the National Park Service proposed actions necessary to maintain the designed historic landscape at George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana. The proposed work involved the removal and replacement in kind of existing overgrown vegetation within a 70 m by 20 m tract along the northeast boundary of the park. Because this work involved minor ground disturbance, the National Park Service first conducted an archeological recom1aissance to...