Ca. 1700- Ca. 1850 (Temporal Keyword)

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The Right to Wharf Out: Contextualizing Early American Wharf Construction (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly McDonald.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Archaeology: Down by the Water" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over a third of Lower Manhattan’s landmass is composed of fill contained within buried wharves, bulkheads, and other landfill retaining structures. Archaeological investigations have increasingly afforded opportunities to examine the construction methods used to build these early structures in New York City and elsewhere. This...