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Phase III data recovery at various contexts ranging from a 17th-c. trader's hut to 19th-c. industrial and commercial contexts at 625 Broadway, Albany, NY, in advance of the construction of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation headquarters. Topics covered in the analysis include 17th-c. colonial trade and contact, production of wampum, evidence of a city-wide fire in 1797, a dump of painted pearlware from about 1797, analysis of the early 19th-c. Albany Female Academy,...

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Photographs of archaeological features associated with residences at 112, 114, and 116 Sheridan Avenue, Albany, NY, excavated for the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracy Miller.

Elevated concentrations of heavy metals in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century privy nightsoil samples raise questions related to historical medicine use. Historical evidence of medicinal practices demonstrates the frequent use of heavy metals in medicine. Previous archaeological studies of medicine have used medicine bottles to examine the potential differences in access to medicine across class. However, due to the difficulty of interpreting medicine bottles as evidence of medicine use, the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karl Reinhard.

Analysis of parasitic remains from the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site as well as two other sites in Albany, NY. Subconsultant report appears as an appendix in the PDF Phase III data recovery report for the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karl Reinhard.

Microscopic analysis of parasitological archaeological remains from several features at the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site. Reinhard's report was included as an appendix to the Phase III data recovery report. The analysis covered 10 features at the site and found a variety of human-borne parasites. This study provides a comparative example to other similar studies elsewhere in Albany.

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Database and artifact inventory for a multi-component precontact site in the Schoharie Creek Valley, NY.

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Artifact inventory for Phase III at 625 Broadway site, Albany, NY.

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Artifact inventory for Phase III at the Quackenbush Square site, Albany, NY.

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Artifact inventory for Phase III at Sheridan Hollow site, Albany, NY.

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Artifact inventory for the SUCF Parking Garage site, Albany, NY.

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Photos of selected artifacts collected from Occupation 1 contexts at the Brickmaker's House in the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY.

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Photos of selected artifacts collected from Occupation 2 contexts at the Brickmaker's House in the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY.

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Report of Phase III data retrieval at the SUCF 600 historic archaeological site, including subconsultant reports and artifact inventory. The report is broken up into chapters pertaining to particular elements of the block-wide site.

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Report of data recovery results from the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site in Albany, NY. The pdf report focuses on the detailed excavation of a rum distillery (c.1750s-1820s) and a brickmaker's house and brickyard (c.1630s-1680s). The report includes micro/macroscopic analyses of faunal and floral materials, pollen, parasites,and heavy metal contents. The report also provides deep historical context to rum production and early colonial settlement in Albany and the Northeast.

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Photographs of the 17th-c. brickmaker's house portion of the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site.

PROJECT Benjamin Heckman. Bradley Russell. Matthew Kirk.

A Phase III Data Recovery Excavation was conducted at the Clinton and Lark Historic Archeological Site (A00140.004690) by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. in July of 2020. The goal of the Project was to identify intact archeological deposits and features to excavate and record, as part of the mitigation effort. The Project entailed mechanical stripping of 156.6 m2 (1626 ft2, or 0.37 acres) as well as excavation and documentation of identified cultural features. Five features were...

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From 2003 to 2005, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. conducted a series of archeological investigations in advance of the construction of a parking facility in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood of Albany, New York. The archeological examination, required by Section 14.09 of the New York State Historic Preservation Act, focused on two urban residential lots on Sheridan Avenue, occupied about 1840-1920. For most of the 19th century, the neighborhood was occupied by Irish immigrants and...

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Hartgen conducted a Phase III data retrieval for the construction of a 600-car parking garage by the State University Construction Fund. The data retrieval focused on a city block along Albany's colonial waterfront. Archaeologists analyzed the remains of several late 18th to mid 19th-century residences and businesses built over landfill along the Hudson River. Beneath this were evidence of colonial land reclamation consisting of timber bulkheads and ricking, as well as the stockade which...

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Photographs of the distillery vats, still bases, and plumbing at the Douw-Quackenbush distillery, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Site, Albany, NY. Citation for Figure 4: "Spirit Distillation." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.438>. Trans. of "Distillateur...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marie Lorraine Pipes.

Faunal analysis of animal bones and food remains from features at the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY. Pipes's report appears as an appendix in the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site data recovery report.

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Photographs of features from the SUCF site, Albany, NY. Features from the site were the subject of several written articles and chapters in edited books. Citations are available in the parent project resource.

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Photographs of structural remains of two houses at 112 and 114 Sheridan Avenue at the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site. The houses were built in the early 1840s and represent examples of row-housing in Albany. Accompanied by conjectural plans of the house and contemporary examples.

PROJECT Elizabeth Gregory. Matthew Kirk.

Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc completed Phase III fieldwork for the proposed Winstanley Distribution Center in the Town of Florida, New York, following Phase I and Phase II archeological surveys identifying the J. Houck Historic Site. The Houck family were significant in the settlement and early development of the community of Florida, New York; their first recorded purchase of the property was in 1793. The Houck family owned and farmed their property for over 100 years, relying on the...

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Leatherstocking Site 2 was discovered in the Town of Windsor, New York, east of the Susquehanna River. It is adjacent to the reputed location of the Onaquaga, a 17th and 18th-century Iroquoian village, and contains pit features and evidence of potential Native and American structures.

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A phase III report of the Leatherstocking Site 2 site discovered in the Town of Windsor, on the flood plain east of the Susquehanna River. It is adjacent to the reputed location of Onaquaga, a 17th-and 18th-century Iroquoian village, and contains pit features and evidence of potential Native / American structures.

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Artifact inventory from Phase II and III investigations at the MB #33 and MB #81 sites.

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Digital resources from Phase II and III investigations at the MB #33 precontact site on the Batten Kill in the Town of Moreau, Saratoga County, NY. Surveys conducted by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. on behalf of National Grid, Inc.

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Report of Phase III Data Recovery at the 625 Broadway Historic Archaeological Site. Includes all appendices and artifact inventory. Report broken out into 12 chapters covering various aspects of the site.

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Part 1 of 2. Photographs of hand-painted patterns and painters' marks on vessel fragments recovered from the 625 Broadway Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, New York.

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Part 2 of 2. Photographs of hand-painted patterns and painters' marks on vessel fragments recovered from the 625 Broadway Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, New York.

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Phase I, II, and III investigations of a multicomponent precontact site on Isle la Motte, VT, one of several small islands in the widest part of Lake Champlain. Includes pottery analysis and components dating to the Late Archaic, Middle Woodland, and Late Woodland/Contact periods.

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Final .pdf report of all three phases of investigations at the small site. Includes pottery, macrobotanical, and faunal analyses in the appendix. Multicomponent site with Late Archaic, Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Contact period elements.

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Phase II archeological site evaluation of two precontact sites in Moreau and Ft. Edward, NY, on the Hudson River. Locational information redacted since not all of the site was mitigated during the subsequent Phase III survey. MB #81 on the east bank of the river in Ft. Edward dates to the Late Archaic period. MB #33 on the west bank of the river in Moreau dates to the Late Woodland. This site was later partly mitigated.

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Report detailing the results of a Phase II site evaluation and Phase III data retrieval of two historic sites on Sheridan Avenue in Albany, NY. The research focuses on the c.1870-1930 use of two privies behind the houses in a neighborhood known in the 19th century as Sheridan Hollow, which was largely occupied by Irish immigrants and Irish-American families. The privy at the 203-209 Sheridan site was likely used by a grocery and saloon located at the corner at 203 Sheridan Avenue.

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Report detailing the results of a Phase II site evaluation and Phase III data retrieval of two historic sites on Sheridan Avenue in Albany, NY. The research focuses on the c.1870-1930 use of two privies behind the houses in a neighborhood known in the 19th century as Sheridan Hollow, which was largely occupied by Irish immigrants and Irish-American families. The privy at the 203-209 Sheridan site was likely used by a grocery and saloon located at the corner at 203 Sheridan Avenue.

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Phase II/III report detailing the data retrieval excavations and research at the Reher site, a late 19th- to early 20th-century Jewish bakery and residence in Kingston, NY. Includes palynological report and artifact inventory in appendix.

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Phase III (redacted) report in .pdf format for a multi-component precontact site, consisting of Late Archaic to Late Woodland materials in the Schoharie Valley. Includes report and artifact database. Report includes pottery analysis, faunal and floral macroanalyses, and radiocarbon assays.

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Phase III report for the MB #33 Precontact Site, a Late Woodland site on the Hudson River. Report written by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. for National Grid (project sponsor). Report (.pdf) includes floral and faunal analyses and radiocarbon dating as appendices. Locational data redacted since the large portions of the site are still intact.

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The Meadowdale Estates Residential Subdivision is a mixed-use residential development within a ±58-acre (23-ha) parcel at the northeast corner of Old Niskayuna and Watervliet-Shaker Roads in the Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York. The John Hill Site is the archeological remains of a farmstead that stood at this same intersection from the 1830s to the 1960s. This report describes the results of a Phase III data recovery excavation completed of the John Hill Site in 2016. This study was...

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Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc completed Phase III fieldwork for the proposed Winstanley Distribution Center in the Town of Florida, New York, following Phase I and Phase II archeological surveys identifying the J. Houck Historic Site. The Houck family were significant in the settlement and early development of the community of Florida, New York; their first recorded purchase of the property was in 1793. The Houck family owned and farmed their property for over 100 years, relying on the...

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This is a group of Phase III data retrieval reports on nine historic archaeological sites in Albany, New York. The group covers a broad range of cultural and temporal contexts, including one of the nation's first railroads, colonial period downtown sites, and mid to late 19th-century domestic contexts.

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A Phase III Data Recovery Excavation was conducted at the Clinton and Lark Historic Archeological Site (A00140.004690) by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. in July of 2020. The goal of the Project was to identify intact archeological deposits and features to excavate and record, as part of the mitigation effort. The Project entailed mechanical stripping of 156.6 m2 (1626 ft2, or 0.37 acres) as well as excavation and documentation of identified cultural features. Five features were...

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Redacted Phase III report. Includes radiocarbon dates, pottery analysis, and flora/fauna macroanalyses.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karl Reinhard.

Subconsultant analysis of pollen from sediments collected at the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site and two other archaeological sites in Albany, NY. Report appeared as an appendix to the PDF Phase III report.

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Photographs of several privies from about 1740-1880 at the 625 Broadway Archaeological Site, Albany, NY

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Phase III data recovery and subsequent investigations for Section 106 compliance in Albany, NY. The project focused on recovery of archaeological data from three colonial and early federal contexts. The first two were a brickyard and brickmaker's house from the 17th century. The house was built in the 1630s to lease to a brickmaker; it was burned and rebuilt in the 1650s and finally abandoned about 1686. The brickyard operated from about 1654 until the late 1680s. The third context was a rum...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marie-Lorraine Pipes.

Analysis of faunal remains from the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site in Albany, NY. Includes analysis of wild game remains from a 17th-c. context. Originally appeared as an appendix to the Phase III report for the Quackenbush site.

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This project is based on Phase III data retrieval excavations and research conducted by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. on the late 19th- and early 20th-century Reher Bakery site, a Jewish-American kosher and bakery within the National Register-listed Rondout-West Strand historic district. Archaeologists discovered several features, including a very large brick cistern, possibly used in the production of sarsaparilla or elsewhere in the bakery. Project resources include the Phase III...

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Excel dataset for Reher Historic site, a late 19th- to early 20th-century Jewish bakery and residence in Kingston, NY.

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After the rum distillery site was buried beneath crushed stone fill to prepare for construction, plans were made to remove and conserve two of the more complete and intact vats. The vats were conserved with PEG at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in New York State and put on permanent display at an exhibit of Albany archaeology in the Charles L. Fisher Gallery at the New York State Museum.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy Asch Sidell.

Report on macrobotanical remains recovered from five privies at the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site. Sidell's report was included as an appendix to the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site data recovery report.

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Plan map of entire site and photographs of the rum distillery complex taken during a public information day in 2001.

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Photographs of the site taken from a hydraulic lift. Includes site map as well.

IMAGE Tracy Miller.

Sample of tobacco pipes collected from Feature 4, a cylindrical brick privy (c.1841-1870), and Feature 3, a wooden privy (c.1870-1908), shared by residents at 112 and 114 Sheridan Avenue.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Hall.

Subconsultant report on trace element analysis of nightsoil from privies found at the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY. Hall found evidence of several trace elements, including lead, mercury, and arsenic, in nightsoil deposits from the 18th and 19th centuries at the site. The document was presented as an appendix to the full Phase III data recovery report for the Quackenbush Square site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracy Miller. Justin DiVirgilio. Walter Wheeler.

Phase III Data Retrieval Report, including macrobotanical, faunal, and parasitic analyses; inventory of artifacts; figures; and site forms. The site consists of features and deposits associated with the urban residential occupation of Sheridan Hollow spanning from c. 1840-1920. Throughout most of the 19th century, the site was populated principally by Irish immigrants and first-generation Irish-Americans. The site components include the architectural remains of two rowhouses, seven privy vaults,...

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Photographs of wooden structures, including cribbing, ricking, wharves, and stockades, from the SUCF Parking Facility site, Albany, NY. Elements of the site were featured in an article from Historical Archaeology. McDonald, Molly R. 2011. Whatves and Waterfront Retaining Strucctures as Vernacular Architecture. Historical Archaeology 45 (2):42-68.