Dog River Plantation (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama
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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Phase II Archaeological Testing at 1MB161, the Dog River Site, for a Proposed Fish Camp on Dog River, Mobile County, Alabama. (2007)
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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.
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Plantation Archaeology at Riviere Aux Chiens, ca 1725-1848 (2000)
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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...