Dog River Plantation (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama

Part of: Colonial Mobile Archaeology: French, British, Spanish, and Early American Colonization on the North-Central Gulf of Mexico Coast

Site Name Keywords
Dog River Plantation • 1MB161

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • House • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Midden

Other Keywords
Glass Beads • Dog River Site

Culture Keywords
Historic • Euroamerican • Historic Native American • Spanish • French Colonial • French Colonial Period • British Colonial • British Colonial Period

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Historic Background Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Building Materials • Macrobotanical • Metal • Shell • Wood

Temporal Keywords
Historical Period • Historical Sites and Artifacts • Colonial Period

Geographic Keywords
US (ISO Country Code) • United States of America (Country) • Mobile County (County) • Alabama (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • MOBILE BAY DRAINAGE • MOBILE BAY • Dog River

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Documents
  • Phase II Archaeological Testing at 1MB161, the Dog River Site, for a Proposed Fish Camp on Dog River, Mobile County, Alabama. (2007)
    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.

  • Plantation Archaeology at Riviere Aux Chiens, ca 1725-1848 (2000)
    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...

Images Datasets Projects
  • Dog River Plantation (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama.
    PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

    Archaeology at the Dog River site has uncovered a series of plantations dating from the mid-1720s to 1848. Originally the home of the Charles Rochon family, the site was successively occupied by Charles' son Pierre and his family and by families related to the Rochons by marriage -- the Goudeaus and Demouys -- then finally by the Montgomery and Hollinger families during the American period, 1830-1848. HIstorical and archaeolgical evidence also indicates substantial occupations by the Chato...