Lake Champlain Cultural Resources
Part of: The Archaeology of Vermont
Site Name Keywords
VT-CH-895 •
Wreck EE: Mule Wreck •
Wreck GG: Standard Canal Boat •
VT-AD-1134 •
Wreck HH: Small Boat •
Wreck JJ: Standard Canal Boat •
Wreck KK: Houseboat •
Wreck LL: Standard Canal Boat •
Wreck MM: Railroad Drawboat •
Wreck NN: Canal Boat
Site Type Keywords
Water-Related •
Shipwreck •
Shipping-Related Structure •
Submerged Aircraft •
Battlefield •
Underwater battlefield
Other Keywords
Revolutionary War Battlefield •
Coal Barge •
Side Scan Sonar Survey •
canal boats •
Underwater Archaeological Investigation
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Euroamerican
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Records Search / Inventory Checking •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Systematic Survey •
Historic Background Research •
Heritage Management •
Archaeological Overview •
Collections Research •
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan •
Environment Research
Material Types
Metal •
Wood •
Building Materials •
Glass •
Ceramic •
Dating Sample •
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Temporal Keywords
Revolutionary War •
Historic •
War of 1812 •
Early 19th Century to mid-20th Century
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
Vermont (State / Territory) •
North America (Continent) •
Lake Champlain •
New York (State / Territory) •
Addison County (County) •
Grand Isle County (County) •
Chittenden County (County) •
Essex County (County) •
US (ISO Country Code)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-5 of 5)
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Lake Champlain Underwater Cultural Resources Survey - Volume IV: 1999 Results and Volume V: 2000 Results (2001)
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Some of the information in this record was migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R). In May of 2013, Digital Antiquity curators found a digital copy of the report and added it to the record along with additional metadata for the general descriptive information about the report. The following text is from the Abstract of the report. The introduction of zebra mussels in the early 1990s and the inevitable approaching infestation of quagga mussels...
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Lake Champlain Underwater Cultural Resources Survey - Volume VI: 2001 Results and Volume VII: 2002 Results (2002)
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The introduction of zebra mussels in the early 1990s and the inevitable approaching infestation of quagga mussels seriously threaten Lake Champlain's underwater cultural resources. These non-native aquatic nuisance species endanger the preservation of submerged cultural resources, obscure them, and hinder their documentation and study. Mussel colonies also threaten to degrade underwater cultural resources physically because of their weight and corrosive action. As of this writing, no effective...
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Lake Champlain Underwater Cultural Resources Survey - Volume VIII: 2003 Results and Volume IX: 2004 Results (2007)
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The introduction of zebra mussels in the early 1990s and the inevitable approaching infestation of quagga mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) seriously threaten Lake Champlain's underwater cultural resources. These non-native aquatic nuisance species endanger the preservation of submerged cultural resources, obscure them, and hinder their documentation and study. In studying this issue, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum determined that one positive reaction to the situation would be to locate and...
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Sloop Island Canal Boat Study: Phase III Archaeological Investigation in Connection with the Environmental Remediation of the Pine Street Canal Superfund Site (2010)
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This report presents the results of a Phase III archaeological investigation of the Sloop Island Canal Boat submerged in the Charlotte, Chittenden County, Vermont waters of Lake Champlain. The archaeological study was undertaken as an off-site mitigation in connection with the Pine Street Canal Superfund site, located in Burlington, Vermont. The archaeological fieldwork at the Sloop Island Canal Boat was conducted during ten weeks in 2002 and 2003 by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and...
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Valcour Bay Research Project: 1999-2004 Results from the Archaeological Investigation of a Revolutionary War Battlefield in Lake Champlain, Clinton County, New York (2007)
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This report presents the results from the 1999 through 2004 field seasons of the Valcour Bay Research Project (VBRP), a Phase I underwater archaeological investigation of the submerged battlefield at Valcour Bay, in Lake Champlain. Valcour Bay is located in Clinton County, New York, between the town of Peru and Valcour Island within Lake Champlain. On October 11, 1776, General Benedict Arnold engaged the British Navy in perhaps the most important naval contest of the American Revolution. After...