Historical Sites and Artifacts (Temporal Keyword)

DATASET Diane Silvia. Gregory Waselkov.

Field Specimen catalog for the Indian House site (1MB147) near Old Mobile (1MB94)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory Waselkov.

Local tradition has long associated the area of Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River with the early French colonial settlement of Old Mobile. But archaeological research on this important historical site is quite recent. A series of newsletters was distributed between 1989 to 1998 to convey to the public the results of archaeological research at Old Mobile by the University of South Alabama.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bonnie L. Gums.

Phase II archaeological testing was conducted on a portion of 1MB161, the Dog River site, for a proposed fish camp on the south shore of Dog River, Mobile County, Alabama. Excavations uncovered several small colonial building remains, including a pieux-en-terre style French colonial building that may have housed slaves working on the Rochon plantation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums.

When the French began colonizing the Mobile Bay area early in 1702, one of the first places they explored was a small estuary on the western shore, Riviere aux Chiens or Dog River. A patch of ground near the river's mouth, about twenty feet higher than the adjacent expansive marshes, attracted their attention. There, on the south bank. the expedition's leader, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, had his men construct a warehouse as a way station for the crews of small sailing craft that would ferry...

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov.

A sample of some of the Native American pottery vessels identified from the Structure 03 assemblage at the Old Mobile site (1MB94). Many of the illustrated types can be attributed to Apalachee, Mobilian, Tomeh, and Chato potters.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bryan Haley. Jay Johnson.

A geophysical survey of a portion of the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was conducted on December 13-16, 2004, by the University of Mississippi's Center for Archaeological Research under contract with the University of South Alabama's Center for Archaeological Studies. The specific goal of the survey was to delineate features associated with Fort Louis de la Mobile, which stood on or near this site from 1702 to 1711. Survey techniques included electrical resistance and ground penetrating radar. Work...

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums. George W. Shorter, Jr.. Diane Silvia.

Site overview photos from the Old Mobile site (1MB94) and a map.