Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia

Part of: Fort Lee Regional Archaeological Curation Facility

This collection contains the archaeological resources from Fort Lee that are held by the Fort Lee Regional Archaeological Curation Facility (RACF) (Fort Lee, Virginia, USA).

These resources are grouped by RACF accession number. The accession number is included at the end of each tDAR project and collection title in parentheses.


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An Archaeological and Historical Survey, Fort Lee (FL1985.001)
  • An Archaeological and Historical Survey of Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia: Final Report and Appendices (1985)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Antony F. Opperman. Luther D. A. Hanson.

    An archaeological inventory was conducted by MAAR Associates. Inc. at Fort Lee, Prince George County. Virginia. This study resulted in the identification of 99 prehistoric and historic sites. A total of 3609 acres was examined constituting a 66.7 percent sample of the facility including all area undisturbed by recent military activity. Initial projections of the resource base were largely confirmed, and the use of an environmentally-based sampling strategy was found to be justified. This...

Archaeological Evaluations of Significance, Fort Lee (FL1987.001)
  • Archeological Evaluations of Significance at Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia (1987)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Antony F. Opperman. Harding Polk II.

    A total of 17 archeological evaluations of significance were completed as part of an ongoing program of cultural resource management at Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia. The evaluations were conducted in compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations In situations where planned development projects would adversely affect identified archeological resources. Of the 17 properties evaluated during this study, six were classified as significant and for...

Archaeological Subsurface Surveys, Fort Lee Military Reservation, Prince George County (FL2011.018)
  • Addendum to Grave Identification Survey, Fort Lee Adams Roudabout, Prince George County, Virginia (2011)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text New South Associates, Inc. .

    This is an addendum to a previous project (Matternes et al. 2010) that addressed the location of an unmarked African-American cemetery on property owned by Prince George County and adjacent to U.S. Army Fort Lee Military Reservation in Prince George County, Virginia. The purpose of the addendum project was to determine whether cultural features, particularly historic period graves, were present in the established triangular median between Jefferson Park Road and Adams Avenue. At the time of the...

  • An Archaeological Subsurface Examination of the Area 2A Parcel on the Fort Lee Military Reservation, Prince George County, Virginia (2011)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Hugh B. Matternes. Valerie Davis. David Price. New South Associates, Inc. .

    This investigation examined the archaeological signature of unmarked subsurface archaeological features with a particular emphasis on identifying unmarked graves. Previous investigations identified potential unmarked graves in Area 2A, a parcel located within the confines of United States Army Fort Lee Military Reservation in Prince George County, Virginia. Area 2A was in the immediate vicinity of the Davis house, a prominent historical structure near the center of Fort Lee. The grounds...

  • Archaeological Subsurface Surveys of Potential Mortuary Areas and Select Parcels on the Fort Lee Military Reservation, Prince George County, Virginia (2011)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text New South Associates, Inc. .

    This investigation addressed three parcels, broken into four project areas to determine the potential for unmarked subsurface archaeological features with a particular emphasis on identifying unmarked graves. Area 1, located on the periphery of U.S. Army Fort Lee Military Reservation in eastern Virginia, was adjacent to an unmarked cemetery (Laboring Sisters of the Vineyard, 44PG0543) on property currently owned by Prince George County. Areas 2A, 2B and 3 were on parcels in the immediately...

  • Grave Identification Survey Fort Lee Adams Roundabout, Prince George County, Virginia (2010)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text New South Associates, Inc. . Hugh B. Matternes. David Price. Sarah Lowry.

    This investigation addressed the location of an unmarked cemetery on property currently owned by Prince George County, adjacent to U.S. Army Fort Lee Military Reservation in eastern Virginia. Historical research indicated that the burial ground was associated with the laboring Sisters of the Vine Burial Association who used it as a cemetery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Open, wooded, paved and wet conditions in the roughly 1.3-acre project required the use of...

Archival and Geophysical Investigations to Locate a Civil War Cemetery and Railroad Station, Fort Lee (FL2010.012)
  • Archival and Geophysical Investigations to Locate a Civil War Cemetery and Railroad Station, Fort Lee, Virginia (2010)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Carey, L. Baxter. Michael L. Hargrave. Carl G. Carlson-Drexler.

    In September, 2008, the Cultural Resources Management Program (CRMP) at Fort Lee, Virginia requested assistance from the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in identifying a Civil War cemetery believed to have been located on what is now Fort Lee. One of the few clues about the cemetery’s location was that it was near Meade (or Meade’s) Station, a United States Military Rail Road (USMRR) station constructed during the Civil...

Boundary Extension, Site 44PG195, Fort Lee (FL2009.011) Golf Course Survey, Site 44PG462, Fort Lee (FL2005.003) GPS Site Data and Evaluation of 23 National Register Eligible Sites, Fort Lee (FL2000.001)
  • GPS Site Data and Evaluations of 23 National Register Eligible Sites at Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia (1999)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Bradley Bowden.

    Between January II and February 5, 1999, Gray and Pape, Inc. conducted collection of GPS site data for 23 National Register eligible archaeological sites at Fort Lee. Prince George County, Virginia. This work was performed for ERC, Inc. following a Scope of Work designed by the Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk. District (Contract No. DACA65-95-D-O116). The goal of the project was to provide Global Positioning Systems data for 23 archaeological sites that have been recommended as eligible for...

Historic Properties Survey, Fort Lee (FL1989.003) Hurricane Irene Damage Assessment, Fort Lee (FL2011.009) National Register Supplemental Archaeological Investigations of Seven Archaeological Sites, Fort Lee (FL1998.001) Phase I archaeological Investigation, Qualification Training Range, Fort Lee (FL2010.002)
  • Phase I Archaeological Identification: Qualification Training Range (QTR) Site Fort Lee, VA (2011)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Bryce Stanley. Amanda Vtipil.

    In 2007 Fort Lee, Virginia, drafted a Range Master Plan that identified plans for the existing ranges as well as future expansion. A Qualification Training Range (QTR) was included among those plans. The proposed QTR will comprise approximately 40 acres (161,874 square meters) and will be constructed immediately north of an existing range (Range 4) and east of Fort Lee’s existing impact area (See Appendix A). Because the project area lies adjacent to an impact area and had the potential to...

Phase II Archaeological and Historical Investigations, Site 44PG317, Fort Lee (FL1990.001)
  • Phase II Archaeological and Historical Investigations of 44PG317, An Early 19th Century Free Black Farmstead, Prince George County, Virginia (1990)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Robin L. Ryder. Archaeological Research Center, Virginia Commonwealth University.

    This report presents the results of Phase 2 archaeological and historical evaluations conducted at 44Pg317, a 19th century domestic site owned and occupied by a freed black family from 1823 through the 1st decade of the 20th century. The Phase 2 evaluation indicates that the site, which contains intact features and fits into an historic context emphasizing the 19th century from the Federal and Antebellum periods through the Civil War and Postbellum periods. Further, since the site was owned...

Phase II Archaeological Evaluation of 44PG185 Proposed Route 630 Widening Project, Fort Lee (FL1993.001)
  • A Phase II Archaeological Evaluation of Site 44PG185, Proposed Route 630 Widening Project, Prince George County, Virginia (1993)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Stevan C. Pullins. Dennis B. Blanton.

    The College of William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR) conducted a Phase II archaeological evaluation of Site 44PGl85, associated with the proposed Route 630 Widening Project in Prince George County, Virginia, from March 8 through March 16, 1993 (Figure 1). This evaluation was conducted in accordance with an agreement with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Project 0630-074-188, C501, B632. The evaluation was carried out under the general supervision of Dennis...

Phase II Archaeological Investigations of the World War I Defensive Earthworks, Fort Lee (FL1997.001) Phase II Archaeological Survey of a Defensive Earthwork, Fort Lee (FL1988.002)
  • Phase II Archaeological Survey of a Defensive Earthwork, Site 44PG299, Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia (1988)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Harding Polk.

    During 1987, MAAR Associates, Inc. (MAI) conducted a cultural resource evaluation survey for site 44PG299 at Fort Lee in Prince George County, Virginia. The evaluation survey consisted of both a physical examination of the site and an historic documents research. It was conducted in compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) and implementing regulations requiring federal agencies to inventory and evaluate all cultural resources located on property owned by the federal...

Phase II Cultural Resources Investigations at 24 Archaeological Sites, Fort Lee (FL1999.001)
  • Phase II Cultural Resources Investigations at 24 Arcbaeological Sites at Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia (1999)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Clarke. Edna Johnston. Sue Kozarek. Len Winter.

    Phase II cultural resources investigations were conducted at 24 archaeological sites (44PGI72, 44PGl84, 44PG185, 44PGI89, 44PGI90, 44PG200, 44PG207, 44PG23I, 44PG240, I 44PG241, 44PG245, 44PG247, 44PG250, 44PG25I, 44PG252, 44PG253, 44PG254, 44PG257, 44PG258, 44PG266, 44PG267, 44PG272, 44PG277, and 44PG279) on the property of Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia Following standard archaeological survey guidelines, these sites were evaluated with regard to their potential eligibility to the...

Phase II Historical and Archaeological Investigations of 30 Archaeological Sites, Fort Lee (FL1996.001)
  • Phase II Historical and Archaeological Investigations at 30 Archaeological Sites, Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia (1996)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Brad Botwick. Debra McClane.

    As part of its responsibilities under Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, Fort Lee, located in Prince George County, Virginia, has undertaken a program of archaeological survey and testing to inventory the National Register-eligible archaeological resources in its possession. This report presents the final stage of this program. Phase II investigations of 30 sites within Fort Lee. The work described in this report was completed by Gray & Pape, Inc.,...

Phase III Archaeological Investigations on the Bull Hill Run Site 44PG316, Fort Lee (FL1989.002) Phase III Investigations, Site 44PG317, Fort Lee (FL1990.002)
  • Archaeological and Historical Investigations of 44PG317, An Early 19th Century Free Black Farmstead Located in Prince George County, Virginia (1990)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Robin L. Ryder. Archaeological Research Center, Virginia Commonwealth University.

    This report presents the results of a Phase 3 data recovery performed at 44PG317 (the Charles Gilliam Site) in Prince George County, Va. (Fig. 1). 44PG317 was discovered in December of 1988 during construction of Route 295 in Prince George County. Phase 2 evaluations indicated that the site was owned and occupied throughout the 19th century by Charles A. Gilliam, a freed mulatto, and his descendants, Mary Ann Gilliam, Susan Gilliam, Henry Gilliam and Maria Gilliam. A number of intact features...

  • Free African American Archaeology: Interpreting an Antebellum Farmstead, Site 44PG317, Fort Lee (1991)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Robin L. Ryder.

    The purpose of this work is to examine material culture recovered from the Charles A. Gilliam site, 44PG317, within an interpretive, contextual framework. The site represents the remains of a middling farmstead which was owned and occupied by Charles Gilliam, a free African American, and his heirs from ca. 1823 to 1917. This study concentrates on the period 1823-1865 when Charles lived at the site. Ceramics recovered from the site, and the information provided by the architectural remains are...

Recovered Civil War Era Bayonet, Fort Lee (FL2009.003)
  • Recovered Civil War Era Bayonet - Electrolytic Conservation of Iron Artifacts (2009)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Lee Regional Archaeological Curation Facility.

    Due to the nature of the find, any contextual analysis of the artifact would be purely speculative. The bayonet was recovered from a deep excavation pit which contained several layers of artificial fill which had, over time, been added on top of the natural strata of the original ground surface. Without out knowing the exact positioning within the layers it can not be determined if the artifact was in its original place of deposition or it was brought in as part of the fill. The area of...

Remedial Archaeological Investigations at Sites 44PG179 and 44PG243, Fort Lee (FL1989.001)
  • Artifact Inventory, Sites 44PG179 and 44PG243, Fort Lee (1990)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text MAAR Associates, Inc..

    This document consists of a letter acknowledging the delivery of artifacts recovered by MAAR Associates, Inc. during Phase II archaeological investigations at Fort Lee in the fall of 1988. Accompanying the letter is an artifact inventory of the delivered artifacts. The archaeological sites involved are both 44PG179 and 44PG243.

  • Remedial Archaeology Investigations at Sites 44PG179 and 44PG243, Fort Lee, Virginia (1989)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Harding Polk II.

    Archaeological investigations were conducted at two previously recorded sites at Fort Lee (44PG179 and 44PG243) by MAAR Associates, Inc. (MAI) for the Norfolk District of the Army Corps of Engineers. The investigations were performed as a result of surface disturbances from unauthorized heavy equipment activity in order to determine if these disturbances impacted any potential cultural resources. Other than the initial inventory survey, site 44PG243 has never been subjected to archaeological...

TA23, Phase I Investigation, Fort Lee (FL2009.008)
  • Field Notes, TA23, Fort Lee (2009)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Lee Regional Archaeological Curation Facility.

    This document contains excerpts of field notes taken during the TA 23 Phase I excavation in March 2009. There also is a typed catalogue detailing the artifacts recorded in the field.