Midwest Archeological Center Technical Reports

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rose E. Pennington.

Previous 1990 and 1991 archeological investigations at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site (JAGA) resulted in the recognition of Late Prehistoric and Historic 1930s-1950s components (Hunt 1999; Lee 1994). From June 21 to July 2, 1993, the Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) conducted an archeological inventory and evaluation at JAGA. These investigations included shovel test surveys of the proposed access road and sanitary sewer line, and test excavations in the proposed parking lot...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. Albert M. LeBeau III.

The National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center staff with Volunteer- In-Parks participants conducted geophysical investigations of the underground electric line installation construction project at the Fort Larned National Historic Site (14PA305) in Pawnee County, Kansas. The geophysical investigations were conducted between July 13 and July 18, 2009. The investigations were requested by the FOLS resource manager at the Fort Larned National Historic Site. The project was located along...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Albert M. LeBeau III. Ashley Barnett. Curtis H. Sedlacek.

The City of Rocks National Reserve is a location with ties to America’s emigrant past. The primary significance at the Reserve is the California Trail and associated features. The National Park Service’s National Trails Intermountain Region requested the National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center assist the City of Rocks National Reserve in geophysical survey and historic names research projects. The projects utilized geophysical prospection techniques to answer questions posed by the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner. Ann C. Bauermeister.

This report documents the planning process for identifying and protecting archeological resources within Everett in Cuyahoga Valley National Park with regard to a proposed sewer system to be developed to serve numerous historic structures in the crossroads community. It also describes the components, content, and context of 14 archeological sites that occur on the properties to be served by the new sewer system. The sewer system would be a unified, single system connected to the City of Akron...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann C. Bauermeister.

The Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) conducted archeological inventory and evaluative testing efforts at the Savacoal property, in Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CUVA), during the 2001, 2002, and 2007 field seasons. The investigations resulted in the identification of two archeological sites, both located on land Tract 109-107 in Boston Village, Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio. Site 33SU419 is an historic artifact scatter associated with the Savacoal Barn on the east side of the parcel....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Janis L. Dial-Jones.

The Midwest Archeological Center conducted field investigations at Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois in 2005 and 2006 in conjunction with the preparation of Historic Structure Reports on two of the houses that originally stood in the Abraham Lincoln neighborhood in close proximity to the Lincoln Home itself, the Carrigan house immediately next door to the north and the Burch house directly across Eighth Street to the west. An archeological inventory and evaluation of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann C. Bauermeister.

The Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) conducted archeological inventory and evaluative testing efforts at site 33SU121, in Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CUVA), during the 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2006 field seasons. Site 33SU121 is located in Everett Village, Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio. The archeological investigations were initiated in response to two undertakings proposed by CUVA. The first was a proposed land exchange between the National Park Service (NPS) and the Church in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. Caven Clark. Chuck Bitting. Jay Sturdevant.

Between June 5 and 15, 2007, the Yarborough Open Site #4, 3NW303, at the Steel Creek Horse Camp located within the Buffalo National River in Newton County, Arkansas, was investigated with archeological prospection techniques including archeo-geophysics and geoarcheology. The archeo-geophysical techniques included a magnetic survey, a vertical electrical (resistivity) sounding, and a magnetic susceptibility profile in order to evaluate the eastern portion of the site for potential campground...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. William E. Altizer.

Geophysical and archeological investigations were conducted at four residences at the Harry S Truman National Historic Site in Independence, Missouri. The investigations were conducted as part of the park’s rehabilitation projects for the replacement of basement foundations at the Noland House and the Frank Wallace House. The four property lots associated with the Noland House (23JA636), the Truman Home (23JA635), the George Wallace House (23JA634) and the Frank Wallace House (23JA637) were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

The National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center and Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site staffs conducted geophysical investigations and construction project monitoring at the Fort Union Trading National Historic Site in Roosevelt County, Montana, and Williams County, North Dakota. The geophysical and archeological investigations were conducted between October 30 and November 16, 2007. The archeological investigations were requested by the park staff for selected areas within...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

The National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center and Harry S Truman National Historic Site staffs conducted geophysical investigations and construction project monitoring at the Truman Farm unit (Site 23JA638) of Harry S Truman National Historic Site in Jackson County, Missouri. The geophysical and archeological investigations were conducted between January 23 and 26, 2008. The archeological investigations were requested by the park staff for the HVAC replacement project at the Truman...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

The National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center and Effigy Mounds National Monument staffs with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student and the Volunteer-In-Parks participants conducted geophysical investigations at the Nezekaw Terrace Mound Group (Site 13AM82) located on the Effigy Mounds National Monument in Allamakee County, Iowa. The geophysical investigations were conducted between June 8 and 14, 2008. The archeological investigations were requested by an anthropology...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karin M. Roberts. James E. Price.

From June 30 through July 25, 1997, subsurface archeological investigations were conducted at four areas of Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, historically known as White Haven, in St. Louis, Missouri (Figure 1). Ground-disturbing activities were planned as part of the restoration and maintenance of the historic property and such investigations were necessary to mitigate any adverse impacts to significant buried archeological deposits within the project area. This project, the fifth...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jay T. Sturdevant.

In 2006, Grand Portage National Monument (GRPO) planned to upgrade its handicapped access through resurfacing of existing graveled pathways and natural dirt paths. The pathway extends southwest from the Kitchen/Great Hall area through the west gate of the reconstructed stockade, links to the restrooms and Canoe Warehouse, and joins with a pedestrian crossing on County Road 17 leading to the new Grand Portage Visitor Center. In October 2006, the Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) conducted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dawn Bringelson. Amanda Davey. Jonathan Weiland.

Staff of the Midwest Archeological Center investigated archeology associated with the James Staples House (HS-09) at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site during fall 2005 and spring 2006. These investigations ensued as a part of a rehabilitation project to upgrade staff housing, to restore the home’s historic character, and to improve conditions for its long-term preservation. Geophysical and shovel test inventories, as well as evaluative testing and data recovery excavations all provided...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan J. Osborn. Ralph J. Hartley.

The Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC), National Park Service in Lincoln, Nebraska was contacted by the staff of the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Sulphur, Oklahoma to request assistance in the completion of an archeological survey of areas that would be impacted by future renovations, rehabilitations, and upgrades of facilities within Chickasaw NRA. These projects include: 1) installation and/or replacement of twenty-two 18’ steel culverts along back country roads; 2) the installation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carl G. Carlson-Drexler. Douglas D. Scott. Harold Roeker.

Pea Ridge National Military Park is located in northwest Arkansas about 40 miles north-northwest of Fayetteville. The battlefield, located in Benton County, includes the 4,300-acre site of the battle. Pea Ridge National Military Park was created by act of Congress on July 20, 1956. The Civil War battle is the primary interpretative emphasis of the park. However, several prehistoric sites have been documented within the park boundaries as well. Human occupation of northwestern Arkansas began...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report is an archeological overview and assessment that summarizes the state of archeological knowledge regarding Voyageurs National Park through about 2003. An Overview and assessment is a specific type of National Park Service planning document that is intended to provide a basis for understanding and managing the archeological resources of a particular park area. Ideally completed very early in a park’s history, the document is intended to guide management and research of the park’s...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott. Harold Roeker. Carl G. Carlson-Drexler.

The National Park Service (NPS) has had an important role in preserving and protecting the nation’s cultural heritage since its inception. Archeological resources, which are an important part of this cultural heritage, are present in most units of the National Park System, and many units have been created specifically to interpret and preserve archeological resources. Like all federal agencies, the NPS is obligated by the National Historic Preservation Act [section 110 (a)(2)], Executive Order...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

The geophysical survey at Voyageurs National Park (VOYA) was conducted as part of the archeological investigations of the Ellsworth Rock Gardens Site (21SL1006). The site was located on the south side of the Kabetogama Peninsula overlooking Kabetogama Lake (Figure 1). The geophysical survey included a magnetic survey with a fluxgate gradiometer, a resistance survey with a resistance meter and twin probe array, a conductivity survey with an electromagnetic induction meter (EMI), and a ground...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

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....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

The project consisted of geophysical investigations at the Hardscrabble residence (23SL1223) at the cemetery on St. Paul Churchyard and the Wish-ton-wish residence (23SL1222) on Anheuser-Busch’s Grant’s Farm. At Hardscrabble, the geophysical investigations included magnetic gradient, conductivity, and ground-penetrating radar surveys. A total area of 6,400 square meters was investigated including 4,800 square meters with fluxgate gradiometer, 2,000 square meters with a ground conductivity meter,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. Robert K. Nickel.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David D. Kuehn.

Preliminary geoarcheological investigations were conducted in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, in August of 1997. The purpose of the research was to establish an initial stratigraphic and geomorphic context for archeological materials within the park. This was accomplished by large-scale surface reconnaissance and intensive data collection at a number of representative study sections. The reconnaissance focused on identifying major geomorphic landsurfaces extant in the park area. These...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert K. Nickel.

During August 1996, the author and a crew of three archeologists from the Midwest Archeological Center conducted an archeological survey of approximately 1,200 acres within the boundaries of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument. The survey focused on fee-owned land north of the Niobrara River. In this area, the crew located five new sites and revisited several previously recorded sites. The crew also recorded 11 isolated stone tools north of the Niobrara River and buried soils containing animal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott.

Archeological investigations were undertaken in August of 2000 in the area proposed for relocating a barn at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site. The excavations were undertaken as part of compliance activities to determine the effect that the proposed barn relocation might have on the site. Geophysical techniques, traditional shovel testing, and limited test excavations located a substantial stone foundation and a series of piers or footers believed to be remains of an 1818 barn. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

Midwest Archeological Center personnel undertook four separate investigations in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, in April and September 2000. All four of the projects were related to the remediation of a landslide on the Cedar Pass segment of the Loop Road in the North Unit of the park. The first project entailed controlled-interval shovel-testing across Area 932 of the Johnny site, 39JK4, a Late Prehistoric/Plains Village occupation in the vicinity of a buttress construction project just...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert K. Nickel.

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana, contains the archeological remnants of Fort Sackville and probably all or portions of the eighteenth-century French post established by Francois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, as well as small portions of the adjacent civilian community. The significant remains date from 1733 to 1780. During the 1930s, state and federal groups collaborated on the construction of the George Rogers Clark Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial Bridge...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report documents Midwest Archeological Center fieldwork at the historic Mustill site located at Lock 15 in the Cascade Locks area of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Akron, Ohio. Located in southern Summit County, this area consists of a series of locks that raised the canal’s waters over the height of land separating the Lake Erie and Mississippi basins. Historic research indicates that the Mustill family, originally from England, lived and operated a store at the western side of Lock 15 from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

This report summarizes the methods and results, as well as the initiating purpose, of archeological excavations carried out at the Julia Sprigg House in the summers of 1992 and 1993. That structure was one of several extant historic buildings within Lincoln Home National Historic Site scheduled for restoration. Limited testing confirmed the presence of intact cultural remains at the rear of the lot, but could not confirm the survival of evidence relating to certain historic elements of the main...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott.

Archeological investigations were undertaken in the spring of 1999 at the Summer Kitchen/Stone building and the Ice House at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site. The excavations were undertaken as part of compliance activities to mitigate the effect of restoration work on the two historic buildings, and to gain information on their origin and function. The Summer Kitchen excavations yielded a wide variety of artifacts. Their distribution suggests that the kitchen's south room was a food...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

In response to preliminary plans for restoration of the Charles E. Arnold House, the Midwest Archeological Center initiated field investigations within Lincoln Home National Historic Site in the summer of 1991. The excavation team sought specific information about the original position of the relocated structure, as well as more general information on associated cultural resources that might be present on the house lot. We found no unambiguous physical remains that would refine the restored...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan J. Osborn.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site is located in urban Springfield, Illinois. It preserves the residence of the Abraham Lincoln family before the Civil War, as well as several other residences dating to the mid-19th century. A number of property lots within the park also formerly contained mid-19th century houses and ancillary buildings. Lincoln’s residence and nearby properties have been the subject of intermittent archeological investigation since 1951. This archeological overview and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott. William J. Hunt, Jr..

Archeological investigations were conducted at Fort Smith National Historic Site as part of mitigation measures for site development. Excavations were undertaken around the exterior of the courthouse/jail complex and in the vicinity of the guardhouse site. The guardhouse site was found to have been destroyed by later Fort Smith town-building activities. The excavations around the courthouse/jail complex recovered evidence of the original galleries and porches that once existed on either side...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott.

This archeological overview and assessment for Wilson's Creek national Battlefield describes the multiple episodes of archeological investigation that have occurred in the park since the 1960s. The report discusses the 50 recorded archeological sites in the park and their relation to the over 8,000 years of documented human use and occupation of the park lands. The assessment discusses what is known about the park's archeological resources, but makes particular note that the main archeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Stadler.

A pedestrian inventory was undertaken in the area occupied by the 1890s copper mining settlement of Ghyllbank, located on the western end of Isle Royale National Park near the Wendigo Ranger Station. Five features from this period were identified: the foundation of the Wendigo Copper Company headquarters; the company dock; a road remnant; part of the existing store; and one structural depression. A pre-1941 stone-lined well that may date to the mining period was also located and mapped.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

In 1980, Congress authorized the establishment of James A. Garfield National HIstoric Site, with the park jointly administered through a cooperative agreement between the National Park Service and the Western Reserve Historical Society. These institutions recently determined that the Carriage House would be adaptively reutilized as a visitor center. This action will require considerable ground disturbance inside and around the margins of the building. To minimize the construction impacts upon...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Forest Frost.

The Master Plan (1970) of the Lincoln Horne National Historic Site calls for the reconstruction of the Arnold Barn using available historic documentation and information derived from controlled archeological investigations. The Site's management staff seeks to use all sources of evidence to ensure that the barn appears as it did circa 1860. Excavations at the site revealed evidence of two barns. The earlier rectangular barn was replaced with a smaller square barn. The sequence of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report summarizes the results of a three-week archeological survey and testing program within a National Park Service-owned parcel of land in Boston Village, Summit County, Ohio. This small, historic community straddles the Cuyahoga River and the Ohio and Erie Canal between the cities of Cleveland and Akron. The archeological project is part of the ongoing planning for restoration of an early 1830s historic structure, the Boston General Store, and development of visitor services related to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report documents archeological excavations conducted by the Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service, at two historic properties at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (HEHO), West Branch, Iowa. This fieldwork occurred in 1989 in support of a major structural restoration program at the Laban Miles and E.S. Hayhurst Houses. These late nineteenth-century structures formed part of a West Branch neighborhood that would have been familiar to Herbert Hoover during his childhood...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

For three weeks during the summer of 1991, an archeological team investigated the abandoned estate of White Haven, family home of Julia Dent Grant, which now is referred to as Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site since coming into the National Park System in 1990. Those excavations served two major purposes: (1) to provide information on the structural evolution of White Haven for preparation of a Historic Structures Report on the property; and (2) to examine two large open grassy parcels...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report summarizes the results of a three-week-Iong archeological investigation of the grounds about the Boston General Store at Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area. This timber-frame structure has survived relatively intact since its construction in 1836. It exhibits elements of Classical and Greek Revival architecture combined with vernacular components. Located along the towpath (west side) of the Ohio and Erie Canal in the village of Boston, Summit County, Ohio, the structure is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

The yard around the Hoover Cottage (also known as the Birthplace Cottage) and a portion of the meadow southwest of the cottage were tested by a Midwest Archeological Center crew between July 15 and July 26, 1991. This investigation was initiated in response to proposed construction and associated ground disturbance at the cottage and between the cottage and the Hoover Library expansion. The purpose of this work was simply to determine whether prehistoric or historic archeological resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Janis L. Dial.

Mitigative archeological investigations were conducted in 1983 at the southern end of the important Elk Creek site, 5GN204/205, within Curecanti National Recreation Area prior to construction of a park apartment complex. That portion of the site extended onto a rocky promontory overlooking Blue Mesa Lake. Archeological activities undertaken at the site in 1982 focused upon the western half of the promontory (Jones 1986), while the eastern half of the point was investigated the following year....

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price. Mark J. Lynott.

Archeological investigations were carried out at two multicomponent archeological sites in the vicinity of Akers Ferry in Shannon County, Missouri, in September 1991. This work was conducted under a cooperative agreement between the National Park Service and the University of Missouri-Columbia and consisted of subsurface testing of previously recorded archeological sites in areas where planned developments in Ozark National Scenic Riverways would adversely impact their archeological integrity if...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Dominguez. Anne Wolley Vawser.

Planned development around the Wahweap area of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will involve constlllction of a variety of structures, roads, and utility corridors. Areas which may be impacted were inventoried by pedestrian survey covering an area of 475 acres. Four previously identified sites were relocated. Two of these were redefined as one site. Fifteen new sites and 16 isolated finds were identified. Testing on six of the sites disclosed no significant subsurface deposits. The crew...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Dominguez.

Site 42SA20286 is an open lithic scatter located on the west bank of Salt Creek in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. The site is considered eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places by consensus with the Utah State Historic Preservation Officer. In September 1989, subsurface investigations were conducted in and near areas of the site to be impacted by bridge construction. Three geomorphic units were identified within the site and can be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alfred M. Lee.

In July 1990, the Midwest Archeological Center and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, under the terms of a Cooperative Agreement, conducted archeological excavations at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio. These investigations were prompted by the proposed renovation of the Garfield horne and the relocation of the parking lot. The investigations focused on five general areas: the main house, the carriage house and gas works (or gas holder), the campaign...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan J. Osborn. Susan Veter. Jennifer Waters. Steve Baumann.

This report presents the results of two archeological studies of prehistoric lithic procurement locations: the Halls Crossing site (42SA14829) in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the White Crack site (42SA17597) in Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah. Both studies suggest that these lithic sources were exploited by mobile hunter-gatherers who produced bifacial cores that they transported throughout their ranges. These thin bifaces served as multipurpose implements,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Caven P. Clark.

The 1991 archeological projects on Isle Royale included the final phase of excavation at the Mott Sauna Beach site, a Terminal Woodland Juntunen phase site, which will be disturbed by the continued construction of housing units on Mott Island. In addition, the investigation of a grave-robbing incident on Cemetery Island and a number of small compliance surveys are reported as contributions towards the documentation and interpretation of Isle Royale's archeological record.

DOCUMENT Full-Text W.E. Sudderth.

The historic Ray House was an integral part of the Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek in southwestern Missouri and served as the Confederate field hospital during the conflict. In order to facilitate the restoration of the structure for service as an interpretative facility for the battle, archeological excavations were undertaken during December, 1983. Deposition of refuse, principally under the piered portions of the House, appears to have been random. Furthermore, archeological investigation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

The Midwest Archeological Center conducted archeological excavations in April, 1983, at archeological site 33-Cu-314, the "Locktender's House" (Historic Structure 125) in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area in northern Ohio. The structure is adjacent to Lock 38 on the Ohio and Erie Canal. These excavations accompanied National Park Service efforts to restore and adaptively use the structure. The structure dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and required extensive restoration. This...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Caven P. Clark.

In November and December of 1992 trenches were dug for the installation of a new security alarm system at Fort Scott National Historic Site, Kansas. The trenching operations were monitored to determine if cultural features and artifacts are located in the areas of primary impact. Several features were recorded, and a number of artifacts dating to the military and post-military history of the fort were collected. In addition, a final portion of this report addresses the research potential in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott. W.E. Sudderth. Christopher Schoen.

The Fort Laramie Cavalry Barracks was constructed in 1874 and continuously occupied until the National Park Service began interpretation of its history. A restoration effort required mitigative excavations in the building's interior and along the west side. Over 5,000 artifacts were recovered that physically document the changing uses of the building through time. Several features were identified that relate to the use of the site since at least the early 1860s. The foundations of a structure...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Dominguez. Dennis Danielson. Karen Kramer.

During 1988 a survey was conducted of 704 acres along trails and 433 acres of proposed burn areas, covering a total of 1,137 acres (Utah Project #U88-NA-184N). Eight prehistoric sites and seven historic sites were recorded. The prehistoric sites are small- to medium-sized lithic scatters, each of which appears to have resulted from one or several episodes of temporary use. Several characteristics of settlement strategies and lithic material use patterns have been observed in analysis of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa A. Connor.

During the August, 1991, metal detector inventory of Big Hole National Battlefield, a partial human skeleton was uncovered. The remains are those of an unidentified girl in her late teens. The skeleton was on top of a camas oven, which is consistent with historical accounts of the disposal of some of the bodies from the battle. The body showed evidence of extensive post-mortem mutilation. The arms had been cut off and laid below the pelvis, one leg had been detached and was not with the remains,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

The Platte River Campground archeological site (20BZ16) is located along the Platte River, within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. The site was discovered in 1985 and was also tested in that year. In 1987, the Midwest Archeological Center conducted archeological excavations at the site in advance of a planned campground redevelopment program which will impact portions of the site. Important information on site age and artifact assemblages was obtained. The site is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Kramer.

This report presents the descriptive and analytical results of an archeological survey of Arches National Park in southeast Utah (Utah Project No. U87-NA-054N). A total of 26 sites and 69 isolated artifact finds was recorded in the 1,160 acres surveyed during August 1987. This report is produced in cooperation with the National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, in accordance with Supplemental Agreement No. CA-6115-7-8008 and in furtherance of MasterCooperati ve Agreement No....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin L. Griffin.

In March, 1989, the Midwest Archeological Center conducted excavations inside Historic Structure 4, the New Commissary, at Fort Larned National Historic Site, Kansas. The excavations were intended to mitigate the impact from the planned adaptive restoration of the structure. The excavations succeeded in determining the depth of fill deposited after the close of the military-period, locating remnant segments of the floor joist supports, and locating a single post feature which dates to the...