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DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Koczan.

The Barrio de Tubac, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, is an archaeological preserve owned and managed by The Archaeological Conservancy (TAC). The Tubac settlement and townsite are included in the National Register of Historic Places. The Barrio de Tubac is eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places and a nomination form is being prepared. On February 27 and 28, 2002, Steve Koczan from TAC and Barbara Ruppman and Philip Halpenny from the Tubac Historical Society completed...

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The results of archaeological testing and data recovery to mitigate the impacts of construction associated with the Plaza Centro project, a private development with support from the City of Tucson, are presented in this report. A survey and archival study (Diehl 2005) indicated that Historic Block 95, AZ BB:13:809 (ASM), once contained the Southern Pacific Employees Club, a facility built and used in the early twentieth century, as well as other buildings. Archaeological testing was recommended...

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The arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Tucson on 20 March 1880, dramatically changed the community. Historic Block 83 was located across the street from the railroad depot and developed rapidly in response to the sudden influx of departing or arriving travelers. Boarding houses, a hotel, saloons, restaurants, barber shops, a pool hall, a Chinese laundry, and several small stores were among the businesses that catered to these people. The southeastern corner of the block was associated...

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Archaeological work was conducted in April and May of 2004, at a portion of the Julian Wash site, AZ BB:13:17 (ASM), located in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, prior to construction of a drainage system. Previous excavations by Desert Archaeology, Inc., and Statistical Research, Inc., identified several loci of this large prehistoric Hohokam site.The new project area was between these loci in an area that once lay beneath an embankment of Interstate 19 (I-19). The removal of this embankment and...

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Archaeological data recovery on Historic Block 185 documented features from two subsurface archaeological sites, AZ BB:13:756 (ASM) and AZ BB:13:757 (ASM). BB:13:756 included soil mining pits, where material to manufacture adobe bricks for the Tucson Presidio was collected, and the foundations of twentieth century dwellings. BB:13:757 consisted of portions of two canals, one dating to the Prehistoric era and one filled with Territorial-era trash. These resources were determined to be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

Historic Block 94 was a scene of controversy in the late 1980s as the City of Tucson planned the demolition of the historic Catalina Hotel. An elevated highway was to pass the block, and the Catalina Hotel was in its path. This building served as housing for many of the town's indigent population, and its inexpensive rooms and sparse surroundings were much better than life on the streets. Advocates wanted to know what was to become of these people. At first, the preservationists failed. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan L. Bupp.

A Supplemental Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection (PA/SI) was conducted at F.E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB), Cheyenne, Wyoming. The purpose of this project was to identify potentially contaminated sites that may require additional investigation and/or remediation under the Air Force Installation Restoration Program (IRP). The Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection (PA/SI) included sampling and analysis of soil and groundwater to assess the potential for contamination. Ten areas of concern...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel R. Bontrager. Lyle M. Stone.

In late August, 1988, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. performed a cultural resources survey of an approximately 4700 ft long by 67 ft wide (7.23 acres) corridor of highway easement along the northwest side of State Route 87 (between Center Street and Mesa Drive) for the Arizona Department of Transportation. This study area is located north of Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona on lands of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Six prehistoric archaeological sites were observed and...

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Metadata for the F.E. Warren AFB collection.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kent Friesen.

Field Notes from the Cheyenne Depot Cultural Resources Monitoring Site Inspection of Study Area 9 carried out in September 2003 at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James M. Brechtel.

Archaeological monitoring of Landfill 2c removal and gas pipeline trenching on previously-recorded site 48LA245, a prehistoric site meeting the criteria for the National Register of Historic Places, demonstrated that the site had no subsurface component within the project area. The Base Archaeologist, Mr. Rick Bryant, allowed the project to proceed and no further management actions for site 48LA245 are recommended in connection with this project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ed Hajic. W.J. Bennett, Jr.. William Isenberger. John Northrip. Robert Bennett.

This project was an outgrowth to the recommendation in the Cultural Resources Management Plan that investigations be undertaken to assess the potential of the Terrace Landscape on Arnold Air Force Base for buried cultural features. Field investigations were undertaken at four locations; near the Woods Reservoir Dam, at two locations near Morris Ferry, and near the confluence of Bradley Creek and Woods Reservoir. In the course of these investigations assessments of the potential for eight...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert D. Shaw.

Alaska Railroad Corporation was realigning its tracks across Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson for ten miles between Anchorage and Eagle River, Alaska. The project was meant to shorten transit time and increase operational safety by straightening the alignment and upgrading the railbed. The Federal Railroad Administration funded this undertaking, but because numerous federal agencies were involved, the Bureau of Land Management had been designated lead-federal-agency for National...

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Project metadata for resources within the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson cultural heritage resources collection. This project is used to fill metadata for all resources part of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson collection.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rick Bryant.

On June 14, 1994, Rick Bryant monitored the trenching of a communications cable running east west along the south side of the parking lot north of building 330. The trench was about 12-15 inched wide and 30 inches deep. Thirty feet due north of the northeast corner of building 330, at the location shown on the attached map, a pit containing bricks, window glass, a nail (wire or cut or wrought?), several harness buckles with all but one or two inches of the straps cut off, a large buckle (belt or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Bryant.

In April 2004, Richard Bryant monitored trenching operations along Diamond Creek Way in the Fort D. A. Russell National Historic Landmark. The trench is about 24 inches wide and four feet deep. The trench begins on the south edge of Diamond Creek Way just north of Building 355 and runs east along the road, then turns southeast and runs to the west side of Building 356. No artifacts related to 48-LA-71DD or the POW occupation of the area were found.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Harley Lanham.

This project was completed in fall of 1994 in support of the construction of several facilities. It included the examination of three different areas, 455 acres in Industrial Site A, 400 acres in Industrial Site B, and a small 1.7-acre tract. The investigators included a geomorphologist who judged that 20% of the surface of the project areas was highly disturbed. Investigators conducted a pedestrian survey of the areas and conducted shovel testing at 30 and 15 m intervals in vegetated areas. A...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Bryant.

Photos from Monitoring Sewer Construction Trenches at Site 48-LA-71CC.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Bryant.

In September 2000, contractors working for F. E. Warren AFB began backhoe trenching for a sewer line installation/repair project. The current excavations were in an area where several previous excavations had been conducted for installing sewer and communications lines. Larson-Tibesar Associates (LTA) previously had conducted coring and test excavations in this area. The contractors also excavated an area outside the known site boundary. Steve Gushue and Rick Bryant monitored the excavations for...

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The Fort A.P. Hill Cultural Resource Manager, under the Environmental Division of the Directorate of Public Works within Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, completed Phase I archaeological survey in association with proposed forestry activities in 33 forestry blocks located in Training Areas 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 25, and 30; Controlled Access Areas 18, 19, and 20; the Wildlife Refuge; and Range 71A, Fort A.P. Hill, Caroline County, Virginia. The proposed forestry activities included two hardwood...

IMAGE Richard B. Davis.

Survey photographs taken of Site 44CE0565 as part of the 33 Archaeological Surveys at Forestry Activity Areas, Fort A.P. Hill, Caroline County, Virginia.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Phyllys Callina.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) proposed to include a 130-acre property located northeast of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) Boniface Gate as part of a land-swap under the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, Section 2851, Land Conveyance program. The proposed project qualified as an undertaking under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), U.S. Code (USC) Title 54, Section 306108 (54 USC 306108), as the project includes federal lands; therefore, an...