18th & 19th Century (Temporal Keyword)

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Archaeological Intensive Excavation Hassanamesit Woods Property, The Sarah Boston Farmstead (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Law. Guido Pezzarossi. Stephen Mrozowski.

This final report summarizes the results of archaeological investigations conducted at the Sarah Boston farmstead during the summers of 2006 and 2007. These excavations were carried out in conjunction with the Hassanamesit Woods Management Committee, a collaborative effort between the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Town of Grafton, Massachusetts, and the Nipmuc Tribal Nation. Designed to provide educational and interpretive...


Archaeological Investigations at the Loring-Greenough House (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul J. Mohler. John Kelley. Katherine Howlett.

In June 1999, Katharine Cipolla of The Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club, Inc. contacted The Center for Cultural and Environmental History at the University of Massachusetts Boston to conduct a survey of the property surrounding The Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Proposed archaeological investigations were prompted by restoration plans designed to enhance the interpretive program for The Loring-Greenough House and its residents covering almost 240 years. The Loring-Greenough...


Archaeological Investigations at the Orchard House (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul J. Mohler. John W. Kelley.

The Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, was built by the Hoar Family in the late 17th to early 18th-century, while also maintaining an additional tenant house to the rear. The property was purchased in 1857 by A. Bronson Alcott, a leader of the Transcendentalist movement, and served as the setting for Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women. The house is listed on both the National and State Registers of Historic Places because of its connection with the Transcendentalist movement and its...


Archaeological Surfey On Compartment 115, Enoree District (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Elliott.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Archaeological Survey of Selected Timber Stands and Proposed Road Construction in Compartment 147, Wambaw District, Francis Marion National Forest (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert G. Pasquill, Jr..

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From Tennessee to Early New England: Larry McKee's Scholarly Reach in the Field of Africana Studies (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanya M Mears.

I would first like to describe my experiences at the Hermitage.  I worked closely with Larry McKee for two summers.  I will then describe how these experiences; most importantly learning about Black people enslaved by the Jacksons; inspired me to go to graduate school for Africana Studies.  Ultimately, I earned my Ph.D.  Finally, I will mention my current work; fueled by interest in the early experiences of Black people whetted at the Hermitage; and unique in the area of Africana Studies.  My...


"Health or Habit?" the Incidence of Lead Glazed Ceramics in Two Historic Assemblages in Kentucky (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy O'Malley.

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Ossabaw Island
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Ossabaw Island State Land Files


Ossabaw Island: Archaeological Investigations at 9CH155: November 2008 (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel T. Elliott.

This report documents emergency archaeological data recovery and survey efforts performed in late 2008 at site 9CH155 on Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, Georgia. The project included salvage excavation of an eroding human mortuary feature (Burial 1), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey of selected portions of the site, topographic mapping, and a minor surface collection from a rarely exposed mud flat in Newell Creek. Each of these phases was completed successfully and provided new...


Ossabaw Island: Archaeological Investigations at 9CH155: November 2008 (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Elliott.

This report documents a recent l y completed archaeological project by The LAMAR Institute on a portion of the Newell Creek site (9CH 155) on Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, Georgia (Figures I and 2). The Newell Creek site is located on the southern portion of Ossabaw Island on an elevated bluff above Newell Creek. This multi-component site is actively eroding along the creek bank and human burials are among the casual ti es of this natural geo-morphological process. Once the Historic...


"Swinging Doors": The Allure & Artifacts of Nineteenth-Century Saloons (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Victor.

         The saloon is a fixture of the oft-romanticized ‘Wild’ American West. Featured in stories, movies, and television, it hosted some of the region’s most colorful characters. While many romantic notions of the West fall apart under scrutiny, a grain of truth exists where the saloon is concerned: it was a key institution on the nineteenth-century American frontier. Like the frontier itself, the saloon came about as a result of new influences mixing with old patterns. In the eighteenth...


Wreck of the Tracy D: Discovery of an Unidentified Shipwreck on Ossabaw Island (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Elliott.

Archaeological investigations at the North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island took place during the winter of2005. Several of the archaeology project team members participated in an unrelated discovery of a shipwreck on the South End Point of Ossabaw Island in St. Catherines Sound during that period. This previously unknown and, as yet, unidentified wreck was first discovered by Tracy Dean, who noticed nineteenth century bottle glass and ballast flint on the beach and the wreck site was named in her...