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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  • 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...