19th Century (Temporal Keyword)
26-50 (83 Records)
Report of data recovery results from the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site in Albany, NY. The pdf report focuses on the detailed excavation of a rum distillery (c.1750s-1820s) and a brickmaker's house and brickyard (c.1630s-1680s). The report includes micro/macroscopic analyses of faunal and floral materials, pollen, parasites,and heavy metal contents. The report also provides deep historical context to rum production and early colonial settlement in Albany and the Northeast.
Cost, quality and value in historical archaeology
This doctoral research program explored three key concepts in nineteenth-century consumerism - cost, quality and value - and the role they play in examining the archaeological material culture of the modern world. It encompassed two primary strands of inquiry: one, a consumption-theory driven study of trade catalogues to analyse the cost and promotion of 19th-century tablewares; and two, a close study of production flaws observed in archaeological sherds. These culminated in a consideration of...
Data Retrieval, SUCF Parking Structure, Maiden Lane, Albany, New York.
Hartgen conducted a Phase III data retrieval for the construction of a 600-car parking garage by the State University Construction Fund. The data retrieval focused on a city block along Albany's colonial waterfront. Archaeologists analyzed the remains of several late 18th to mid 19th-century residences and businesses built over landfill along the Hudson River. Beneath this were evidence of colonial land reclamation consisting of timber bulkheads and ricking, as well as the stockade which...
Detailed Vat Photos from the Douw-Quackenbush Rum Distillery, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2002)
Photographs of the distillery vats, still bases, and plumbing at the Douw-Quackenbush distillery, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Site, Albany, NY. Citation for Figure 4: "Spirit Distillation." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.438>. Trans. of "Distillateur...
Evaluative Investigations at the Au Sable Light Station, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan, 1990 (1994)
Midwest Archeological Center personnel conducted two weeks of evaluative test excavations at 20AR193, the Au Sable Light Station, in the eastern portion of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in September of 1990. Undertaken in support of architectural and engineering consultation at the site prior to the restoration of some of the buildings at Au Sable, the Center excavations exposed subsurface foundation profiles at six standing structures. Additionally, limited block excavations and trenching...
Feature Photographs from the SUCF Parking Garage site, Albany, NY (2001)
Photographs of features from the SUCF site, Albany, NY. Features from the site were the subject of several written articles and chapters in edited books. Citations are available in the parent project resource.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part VIII: Artifacts Associated with Transportation, Commerce and Industry and of Unidentified Function (1996)
Fort Union served as the major trading establishment for the American Fur Company and its St. Louis descendants (Bernard Pratte and Co. and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Co.) on the Upper Missouri River between 1828 and 1865. In 1865, Charles Chouteau sold Fort Union to Hubble, Hawley and Smith, otherwise known as the North Western Fur Company. During its last years of existence, between 1864 and 1866, the traders shared the post's facilities with the U.S. Army, the latter utilizing Fort Union as a...
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part II: Food Related Materials (1986)
National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding. A systematic effort to analyze and report all...
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part III: Personal and Recreational Materials (1986)
National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding. A systematic effort to analyze and report all...
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part X: Native American Burials and Artifacts (1994)
Fort Union, the headquarters of American Fur Company's Upper Missouri Outfit, dominated the region's fur and bison robe trade from 1828 to 1865. The Minneapolis-based North Western Fur Company operated the trading post from 1865 to 1867 and the U.S. Army had a contingent of soldiers there from 1864 to 1865. In 1867, the Army bought and razed Fort Union for building materials in the construction of Fort Buford, a new infantry post two miles to the east. In 1965, Congress designated Fort Union a...
The Foundation for American Public Archaeology: Section 3 of the Antiquities Act of 1906 (2006)
The Antiquities Act of 1906 is not widely known, yet it is among the most important of American laws for archaeological and historical preservation, as well as for natural resource conservation. To the extent that the law is known, it is most commonly understood to be the authority by which the president can establish national monuments on public lands. This chapter describes another important aspect of the law: its position as the foundation for public archaeological and historic preservation...
From Fire to Flood: Historic Human Destruction of Sonoran Desert Riverine Oases (1981)
This book has been written intentionally to attempt to correct the disnoetic behavior of scientists who previously analyzed historic erosion and related changes in the Sonoran Desert environment. For scientists, no less than historians, have been quite unduly disnoetic; that is, all too many have proved to be incapable of knowing what they see (Morgan 1966:31). The chapters which follow this introduction deal with such variables as those already briefly mentioned, plus a number of others. Each...
Geophysical Investigations of a Historic Iowa Family Cemetery (14BN111), Brown County, Kansas (2007)
The geophysical investigations of a family cemetery (14BN111) in Brown County, Kansas, were initiated by the National Park Service in response to a request from the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska executive committee. A meeting and site tour were held with the tribal chairman and executive committee staff members, tenant farmer, and Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) Archeological Assistance and Partnership Program archeologist on January 15, 2004. This visit was to assess the feasibility of...
Geophysical Investigations of a Historic Sac and Fox Multiple Family Cemetery (25RH122), Richardson County, Nebraska (2007)
The geophysical investigations of a tribal/multiple family cemetery (25RH122) in Richardson County, Nebraska, were initiated by the National Park Service in response to a request from the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri tribal council. A meeting and site tour were held with the tribal council secretary, Midwest Archeological Center Archeological Assistance and Partnership Program archeologists, and private consultant on November 18, 2002. This visit was to assess the feasibility of the...
Geophysical Investigations of Proposed Interpretative Garden at the Second Fort Smith Site, Fort Smith National historic Site (3SB79), Sebastian County, Arkansas (2009)
During July 16 to 19, 2007, the Midwest Archeological Center and Fort Smith National Historic Site staffs conducted geophysical investigations at the second Fort Smith site within the Fort Smith National Historic Site (3SB79) in the City of Fort Smith in Sebastian County, Arkansas. The project was conducted in response to the park’s request for the non-destructive and non-invasive investigations of a triangular area between the Officers Quarters location and the modern railroad tracks in...
Historic Shipwreck Information for Ossabaw Island (1999)
Notes on Historic Ship Wrecks at Ossabaw Island
An Historical Study of the Grand Portage, Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota (1993)
The major objective of this report is to “Conduce Research to Describe the Historical Character and Use of the Grand Portage.” This information will become a portion of a comprehensive holistic Trail Management Plan for the Grand Portage. The Scope of Work for this project lists and discusses a series of ten areas of research that relate directly to the history and uses of the portaqe over a time period of about two centuries from late prehistoric times to the early 19th century (c. 1600-1825).
Magnetic Gradient Survey of Seminoe's Fort on the Tom Sun Ranch Along the Oregon and California National Historic Trails, Natrona County, Wyoming (2002)
Seminoe’s Fort was a trading post along the California, Mormon Pioneer, and Oregon National Historic Trails near Devils Gate in southwestern Natrona County, Wyoming, which was used in various ways from 1852 to 1857. Over the decades since the abandonment and destruction of the fort, the exact location of the small trading post, designated 48NA288, was lost in the memory of the American people. The National Park Service’s Long Distance Trail Office in Salt Lake City requested the Midwest...
Magnetic Survey of the Southern Portion of the Elbee Site (32ME408), Mercer County, North Dakota (2008)
Between September 11 and September 15, 2006, Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) staff conducted magnetic geophysical investigations at the Elbee Site (32ME408) within Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (KNRI). This was part of a multiple phase archeological project to assess the archeological record of the Elbee Site that has been dramatically impacted by erosion of the vertical cutbank along the Knife River in the northern portion of the site. Initially, a magnetic survey was...
More than Meets the Eye: The Archeology of Bathhouse Row, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas (2008)
For many, the oldest “park” managed by the federal government is not Yellowstone National Park (set aside in 1872) but Hot Springs National Park (HOSP) in Arkansas. Congress set aside the hot springs and adjoining mountains here as a federal reservation in 1832 to protect the resource and preserve it for public use. For centuries before this, the hot springs may have used by Native Americans, their occupations having little impact on the resource. But with EuroAmerican use, this began to change....
Ossabaw Island
Ossabaw Island State Land Files
A Phase I Archaeological Survey of Primary Roads Project NHS-63-1(39)--19-26, A.K.A. 91-26030-1, Davis and Wapello Counties (1996)
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Phase I Literature Review and Archeological Field Investigation, Monitoring Fiber Optic Cable Installation, Maiden Lane, City of Albany, Albany County, NY (2001)
Phase I investigations and monitoring for the installation of a fiber optic cable in Maiden Lane. The monitoring work uncovered a 19th-c. foundation and associated sheet midden, as well as a late 17th-c. feature and two 18th-c. features. Samples were recovered from each feature.
Phase IB/III Archeological Investigations, Hudson River Way Pedestrian Bridge, Maiden Lane, City of Albany, Albany County, New York (2002)
Investigation of 17th, 18th, and 19th features in the colonial center of the City of Albany. Includes examination of a culverted stream, a late 18th-c. privy, and evidence of massive fires in 1793 and 1797.
PHASE II ARCHAEOLOGICAL TESTING AT THE CAMPBELLTON SITE (38AK276), HAMMOND FERRY SOCCER COMPLEX AIKEN COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA (2004)
"In October 2004, the City of North Augusta contracted with TRC to conduct Phase II archaeological investigations on portions of 38AK276, also known as Campbellton. The site was originally recommended potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) subsequent to a Phase I cultural resources survey conducted by AF Consultants (Drucker and Barr 2004). AF Consultants recommended either avoidance or additional investigations if avoidance was not possible. The City of North...