US Army Corps of Engineers

This collection is referred to as “Investigation at Stoney River Dam 1961.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The documents date from March to April 1961 and include a progress report, a memorandum, a note, and newspaper articles. The documents were originally housed in an acidic folder, within an acid-free box, and were in good condition. The original folder was labeled...

The Jackson site, 1BR35, is primarily a large historic Lower Creek village with minor prehistoric components. The Jackson site was first recorded in 1959 by Harold Huscher and was excavated in 1960-1961 by David L. DeJarnette and a field crew from the University of Alabama. During that time he documented excavation of three burials. In 2000, “Brockington technicians documented a minimum of four individuals, 6 associated funerary objects, and no unassociated funerary objects.” Although these...

The Jackson site, 1BR35, is primarily a large historic Lower Creek village with minor prehistoric components. The Jackson site was first recorded in 1959 by Harold Huscher and was excavated in 1960-1961 by David L. DeJarnette and a field crew from the University of Alabama. During that time he documented excavation of three burials. In 2000, “Brockington technicians documented a minimum of four individuals, 6 associated funerary objects, and no unassociated funerary objects.” Although these...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Lafayette Lake 1977.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two and a half linear inches. Lafayette Lake 1977 was contained within...

The MCX-CMAC utilizes the standard archival practice of “unique naming” of collections. The purpose of this is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Lake George Mitigation.” This naming practice is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder titles, and box labels. The linear extent of this collection is four (4) inches. All field and catalog records were duplicated...

This collection is referred to as "Lake Monroe 1976.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is ten (10) linear inches. The associated documentation for Lake Monroe 1976 was stored in thirty acidic folders in one acidic cardboard box with several other document collections. Because the archaeological investigations at Lake Monroe were so extensive, it took longer than the time originally allotted by the Army Corps....

There is no report associated with the Lake Monroe Survey and Excavation, Arbitrary Collection, 1976-1997 collection. Information derived from this collection was taken from data recorded on bags, field specimen tags, and GBL catalog cards. The county symbol employed is MO for Monroe County. Within this collection, twenty accession numbers are associated with multiple site numbers. There are multiple Lake Monroe collections contained in this one box of artifacts, and it would be advisable for...

The first step in the typical rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the archival collection. This investigation had no report or other associated documentation at the St. Louis District, other than the University of Mississippi box contents sheets that came with the artifacts. Using the information retrieved from the artifact bags, this...

This collection is referred to as “Little River-Buffalo Creek Special Land Disposal Tract 1983.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection measures twelve (12.0) linear inches. The investigation was originally stored in an acidic cardboard box sealed with tape with other investigations from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, Strom Thurmond Lake subject property. Field and analysis forms, site maps...

The Long Branch Lake Survey 1974–1978 was authorized under the Flood Control Act of 1965 (Grantham 1986:1). The investigation was initiated because the construction of Long Branch Lake would directly impact and result in the loss of significant archaeological data. Since preservation was unfeasible, the USACE, Kansas City District, contracted with Northeast Missouri State University to recover archaeological data in order to mitigate the effects of construction. Between the summer of 1974 and...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections project, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia. After 22 September 2011, the collection was...

The Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection has its origins in a 1958 Smithsonian Institution survey of the Chattahoochee River basin in preparation for the construction of dams which resulted in the Walter F. George Reservoir. This survey identified Mandeville (9CY1) as the highest priority site found at that time. Excavations at Mandeville (9CY1) took place in 1959 under the direction of Principal Investigator James H. Kellar of the University of Georgia. He was assisted in the field by...

New South Associates, Inc., as sub-consultant to Gulf South Research Corporation, conducted the excavation at Maner-Garnett House, Webb Wildlife Management Area, on July 16 and 17, 1996. The property is part of the “Westvaco” or “Palachucola” tract of the Webb Management Area which was acquired by USACE, Savannah District as part of the Richard B. Russell Reservoir mitigation project. Overseen by Principal Investigator Dr. J. W. Joseph, the goal of this archaeological investigation was to locate...

The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection through an archaeological test excavation at the Mary Ann Cole Site in 1976. Mary Ann Cole Site was situated on a fluvial terrace of the Ohio River where the Blue River joins it in Crawford County in Indiana. With the discovery of the site, test excavation were undertaken to define the site and locate features. The site’s western boundary was indefinable due to the presence of the abandoned Corp of Engineers Lock and Dam No. 44 structures....

The USACE, Louisville District obtained this investigation through an archaeological test excavation at the Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) in 1977 undertaken by the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University. The Mary Ann Cole Site is located on a fluvial terrace at the confluence of the Ohio River and Blue River in Crawford County, Indiana (Guendling 1977). The Mary Ann Cole, 1977 investigation was undertaken to ascertain cultural deposits prior to planned development of the site...

Data recovery at the Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) in Crawford County, Indiana, consisted of archaeological excavations at the site and a geologic survey of lithic resources in nearby uplands. Excavations examined deposits consisting primarily of lithic refuse reflecting the manufacture of a variety of chert objects relating to the Late Archaic/Early Woodland transitional and Middle Woodland Periods. Materials indicated a lithic manufacturing locus composed entirely of waste products and broken or...

There are no report or field forms associated with these materials. An electronic artifact catalog provided by GBL for these remains and artifacts was titled “5208 - Mary Ann Cole Site 1982” and includes the dates of collection and the collectors’ names (Folder 1/1). The VCP St. Louis laboratory processed three other artifact collections from the Mary Ann Cole site (1976, 1977, and 1979-1981), but stated that this accession number (5208) did not belong with any of those investigations. The Mary...

In 1983, Ball State University submitted a draft proposal to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for a Department of the Interior Survey and Planning Grant. The proposal requested funds to formulate an ethnohistoric study unit for the Miami Indian occupation of the Upper Wabash drainage in central Indiana. The proposed project was to be carried out by William R. Wepler in four stages: study unit construction, background research,...

The Millers Ferry 1963-1968 investigation is the responsibility of USACE, Mobile District, and is curated by the OAR in Moundville, Alabama. The collection consists of historic and prehistoric artifacts recovered from the archaeological investigation of 27 sites in the area of the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam reservoir, Wilcox County, Alabama. USACE, Mobile District planned the construction of the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam on the Alabama River under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1945. The...

This collection is referred to as "Millwood Plantation 1980.” The name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is twenty and a half (20.5) linear inches. The documents date from 1979 to 1987. The field work began in 1980, which explains the date in the collection name. The range of dates includes administrative documents and the final report. The collection was originally housed in acidic file folders in an acidic cardboard...

This investigation was conducted by Ball State University in the Mississinewa Reservoir within Grant, Miami, and Wabash Counties, Indiana. The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the finding aid, scanned asset key, oversized material excel spreadsheet, and oversized Mississinewa Reservoir aerial and draft maps and map figures. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include an initial data sheet, document folder...

In the summers of 1980 and 1981 William Wepler led a survey project of the Mississinewa Reservoir. The Mississinewa Reservoir is located in the Lower Mississinewa drainage between Peoria and Marion, Indiana in Miami, Wabash, and Grant counties. The survey spanned all three counties, and due to the size of the area being investigated, was performed as a non-random pedestrian survey. To help increase the likelihood of finding sites the crew conducted landform based surveys, where the survey area...

The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection from sites 12MO133, 12MO173, and 12MO176. The sites are identified using the conventional trinomial system; the county symbol MO refers to Monroe County, Indiana. There are six accession numbers associated with this investigation. Accession numbers 5704, 5706, 5894, and 6316 are associated with site number 12MO173, accession number 5892 is associated with site number 12MO133, and accession number 5893 is associated with site number 12MO176....

This collection is referred to as "Monroe County Survey 1976.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a half linear (1 ½) inches. There was no report present in the Monroe County Survey 1976 document collection. There were no oversized or photographic materials removed from this collection. The only documents belonging to this collection were Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology catalog and specimen...

The New Geneva Pottery Waster and Dock Site (36FA404) 1995 investigation in Monongahela River, Pennsylvania was contracted to John Milner Associates, Inc. and conducted over a period of two years. Excavations occurred in August and November of 1993. The principal investigators were Wade Catts, John McCarthy, and Thomas Johnson. The studies were by JMA, on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, as part of the Grays Landing Lock and Dam project. JMA studied and documented...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Newburgh Locks and Dam N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter of a linear inch. The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "OAR Projects Progress Reports 1968-1972.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two (2) linear inches. The progress reports were...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as ―Ohio River Valley Cultural Resources Assessment 1976–1983.‖ This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two linear inches. Ohio River...

This collection is referred to as "Ohio River Environmental Assessment and Kanawha River Project 1977-1978.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is half (0.5) of a linear inch. The documents date from 1975 to 1978, but the reconnaissance report dates to 1977 and the Public Notice was issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1978, which explains the dates in the investigation name. The collection contains...

No report was present for the Investigations. The sites identified during this investigation were not given site numbers on the original bags, but an inventory was included that listed many of the artifacts as having come from site 1HO27. Site 1HO27 is a small Late Woodland/Early Mississippian Period site on the “…north bank of an unnamed creek that joins Bear Creek just north of the Houston-Geneva County line” (Brooms 1975). It includes a prehistoric mound known as Seaborn Mound, Crawford...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Omussee Creek Park (1HE4) 1977.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two-tenths (0.2) of a linear inch. On the exterior of the...

This investigation is referred to as “Palachucola Unit Survey, Webb Wildlife Management Area 1994-1995.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, file folders, and box labels. The extent of this investigation is thirty-six (36) linear inches. This investigation dates from 1978 to 1995. The majority of the documents are dated from 1994 to 1995, as denoted in the investigation name, but there are additional background records included in the document collection. The documents were...

James R. Denbow’s report, entitled Archaeological Excavations in the Patoka Reservoir Dubois County, Indiana, describes the results of the archeological test excavation undertaken at two rock shelters, Kitchen Rock (12DU7) and Saltpeter Cave (12DU7), located within the boundaries of the Patoka Reservoir in eastern Dubois County, Indiana. Though both shelters were situated above the proposed high water level of the reservoir and were not directly endangered by the construction of the dam, they...

The Veterans Curation Program (VCP) utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Patoka Lake Salvage Excavations 1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is four and a half (4.5) linear feet. All materials...

The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection through an archaeological test excavation at the Paynetown Light Site in the Monroe Reservoir located in Monroe County, Indiana. In order to evaluate the archaeological significance of the site and assess its eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places, GBL performed the investigation under contract with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Reservoirs. The investigation was prompted by continuing impacts to...

The MCX-CMAC utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of the collections. The purpose of this is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Perry Creek Associated Documentation.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and one half linear feet. In 1972, the Corps of Engineers was planning...

This is a store ledger donated by a descendant of the store proprietor. Therefore, this collection is referred to as the Pickensville, Alabama Store Ledger, 1841. This name is consistent throughout the finding aid and the box labels. The extent of this collection is 1.66 (one point six-six) linear feet. The Pickensville Alabama Store Ledger was donated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers by Jimmy Wilbourne and consists of the store’s day by day sales from July 1, 1841 through October...

The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection through an archaeological test excavation at the Pine Grove Site, Lake Monroe Reservoir in 1987. Limited excavations at the Pine Grove Site (12MO183) were done by GBL in contract with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Divisions of Reservoirs. A possible Paleoindian component, continuing severe erosion, and the discovery of four pothunter holes prompted the site investigation. The fieldwork was conducted under the supervision...

This collection is referred to as "Pocatalico River Basin Joint Study 1973-1975.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The documents were originally housed in an acidic folder within an acid-free box and were in overall good condition. Small tears and metal contaminants were present. Tears were mended with acid-free tissue mending tape, metal contaminants were removed using...

There is no report or documentation associated with this investigation. The VCP could not determine why the investigation was initiated, who the investigating organization was, who supervised the fieldwork, and when the fieldwork was conducted. It is possible that this unprovenienced material consists of several small investigations that have since lost their identifying project information. The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Public Notices 1975-1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is six linear inches. The digital materials in this collection were...

The Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) is a small rockshelter with associated historic features. The site is located on a southeast facing slope above an unnamed tributary of the East Fork of the Little Blue River in Jackson County. The property is part of Blue Springs Lake, owned by the USACE Kansas City District, and is operated by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation. Due to the fact that vandalism was identified at the rockshelter, Jackson County Parks and Recreation conducted a pedestrian...

This collection is referred to as “Relocation of Cemeteries for Group III 1981.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this investigation is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The document dates to 1981. The associated document was originally housed in an acidic file folder in a cardboard box with multiple collections from the Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area. One metal contaminant was found in the document, which was...

The USACE, Vicksburg District contracted with Coastal Environments, Inc. (CEI) to conduct an intensive survey of the area around Sunflower Landing that would be affected by the construction of the Rena Lara berm in Coahoma County, Mississippi. The survey was conducted between May 22 and 29, 1985. Richard A. Weinstein served as principle investigator. It was during this time that the 16 sites were discovered: Cypress Brake (22CO704), Forked Ridge (22CO705), Eubanks (22CO706), Sheep Pen (22CO707),...

GAI Consultants, Inc. conducted cultural resource investigations from May to August 1985 and again from July to August 1986 at five locales in preparation for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed replacement of Locks and Dams 7 and 8 on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The principal investigator was Beverly A. Mitchum and the project manger was Robert J. Houston. The study consisted of a review of the archaeological sites within one-half-kilometer of the Monongahela...

There is no background information for this investigation. No reports, archives, or other background information were associated with this artifact collection. While re-housing the artifacts for Resurvey of Salamonie (Accession Number 88.106) it was found that the majority of artifacts had accession number 88.106, but three other accession numbers were also identified (87.13, 88.40, and 93.164). The box list given to the VCP by AAL listed these accession numbers as also being associated with...

This collection is referred to as "Richard B. Russell Parks Survey 1984-1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a half (1.5) linear inches. The documents date from 1984 to 1988. The investigation occurred primarily from 1984 to 1985, which explains the date of the project name. The range of dates includes further fieldwork and analysis information. This collection consists of field and analysis...

This collection is referred to as "Riverine Resources Survey 1981”. This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1) linear inch. This documents date from July to September 1981. The documents were originally housed in an acidic folder in an acidic cardboard box with numerous collections from the Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area. The documents were in good condition. One document contained tape, and the...

This collection is referred to as “Road Relocation in Abbeville and Anderson Counties 1978-1979.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a half (1.5) linear inches. The documents date from 1978 to 1979. The documents were originally housed in one acidic folder in an acidic cardboard box along with numerous collections from the Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area. The documents were originally...

This collection referred to as "Rockport Site 1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two linear inches. The Rockport Site 1980 came in one acidic brown accordion folder in an acidic box with documentation from other Rockport Generating Station archaeological investigations. The overall condition of the report was fair but needed much cleaning and repairs. Dirt smudges were erased, while tape was removed...

This collection is referred to as "Rockport Site 1984.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders and the box labels. The extent of this collection is three and a half linear inches. The Rockport Site 1984 was contained within two acidic accordion folders in an acidic box along with several other acidic brown accordion folders that contained documentation from other Rockport Generating Station archaeological investigations. The different document collections were kept...

The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection through an archaeological test excavation at the Rockport Site. The report, entitled Test Excavation at the Probable Archaeological Site at Bore Stations N130-E925, E925, N155, E925, N180 Indiana-Michigan Electric Company Rockport Plant Rockport, Indiana, detailed the testing of a probable site that would be impacted by the construction of an intake structure (Johnson and Dorwin N.D.). The initial survey employed subsurface auguring to...

The Rood’s Landing Site (9SW1), also known as Rood’s Creek, was described by Caldwell as a Mississippian Period mound center consisting of eight mounds and a large village at the confluence of Rood’s Creek and the Chattahoochee River in Stewart County, Georgia. It was first described by C.B. Moore in 1907, and recorded again in 1939 by Wauchope (Atz, Huddleston & Sweeney 2000). In 1955, four of the mounds were tested by Joseph R. Caldwell (Caldwell 1955). Caldwell’s report was published in the...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Rood’s Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is fourteen linear inches. The Rood’s Landing (9SW1)...

The Rood’s Landing Site (9SW1), also known as Rood’s Creek, was described by Caldwell as a Mississippian Period mound center consisting of eight mounds and a large village at the confluence of Rood’s Creek and the Chattahoochee River in Stewart County, Georgia. It was first described by C.B. Moore in 1907, and recorded again in 1939 by Wauchope (Atz, et al. 2000). In 1955, four of the mounds were tested by Joseph R. Caldwell (Caldwell 1955). However, over the next thirty years Rood’s Landing was...

The Rood’s Landing site (9SW1), also known as Rood’s Creek, was described by Caldwellas a Mississippian Period mound center consisting of eight mounds and a large village at the confluence of Rood’s Creek and the Chattahoochee River in Stewart County, Georgia. It was first described by C.B. Moore in 1907, and recorded again in 1939 by Wauchope (Atz, Huddleston & Sweeney 2000). Later, “large surface collections were made by the Smithsonian, the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama,...

This collection is referred to as "Rucker's Bottom Group 1980-1981.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1) linear inch. The documents date from 1970 to 1981. The investigation occurred primarily from 1980 to 1981, which explains the date of the project name. The range of dates includes background information. The documents were originally housed in an acidic manila folder in a cardboard box along with...

No reports are present for the Russell County Arbitrary (Multiple) 1969 and N.D Investigations. It is a multi-investigation collection comprised of numerous small investigations. Two of the sites in the Russell County Arbitrary (Multiple) 1969 and N.D. Investigations are mentioned in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Preliminary Compliance Report for Ten Sites at Lake Walter F. George, Alabama and Georgia, prepared by Brockington and Associates in 2000 (Atz, et.al....

This collection is referred to as "Saint Louis District Lock and Dam 24 Photographs 1936-1938 and 1936-2013.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1) linear inch. There is no final report associated with the document collection, as it does not belong to a typical archaeological investigation. In total there were 25 black and white photographs in good condition, despite some yellowing, residue stains, and...

This collection is referred to as “Salamonie and Mississinewa Reservoirs 1961-1963.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is half of a linear inch. The final report was assigned the report of investigation number ROI #63-1 by the contract company. The copies of these four reports that were processed by the VCP staff are photocopied versions of the original reports. Prior to the final report, three preliminary...

This investigation was conducted by Ball State University in the Salamonie Reservoir in Huntington and Wabash Counties, Indiana. The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include aerial images and maps, the finding aid, oversized material spreadsheet and scanned asset key. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include aerial images, document folder listing, initial data sheet, miscellaneous handwritten notes, notes, oversized...

An archaeological survey of the Salamonie Reservoir was carried out by principal investigators William R. Wepler and Donald R. Cochran, from Ball State University in 1982. Salamonie Reservoir is located in the Huntington and Wabash counties of Indiana. The survey was conducted to identify the variables that influenced site selection, refine the cultural history of the area, develop hypotheses concerning Early Archaic settlement patterns, investigate the seeming lack of Middle Archaic occupation...

The first step in the typical rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the archival collection. This Sardis Lake investigation had no report or other associated documentation at the St. Louis District, other than the University of Mississippi Box Contents Sheets that came with the artifacts. Using the information retrieved from the artifact bags and...

This collection is referred to as "Savannah River Floodplains 1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and three quarter (1.75) linear inches. The documents date from 1979 to 1980. The investigation occurred in 1979, but the draft of the final report was written in 1980, which may explain the date of the project name. The documents were originally housed in acidic file folders in a cardboard box with...

This collection is referred to as "Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Relocation 1979.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a half (1.5) linear inches. The documents date from 1968 to 1979. The investigation occurred in 1979, which explains the date of the project name. The range of dates includes a field map that was originally created in 1968. The documents were originally housed in acidic files in a...

This collection is referred to as "Seventeen Sites in Richard B. Russell Reservoir 1980”. This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1) linear inch. The documents date to 1980. The documents were originally housed in an acidic folder in an acidic cardboard box along with numerous collections from the Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area. Tape was originally found on scanned asset #2038-0001 and the tape...

The Shell Bluff document collection was obtained from the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, University of Mississippi. The original housing of this collection consisted of 66 linear inches of acid-free tri-tab folders contained within five acid-free boxes, plus a half-box of photographs. Document boxes were labeled 0192 to 0196 by the Cobb Institute. A majority of the folders were housed according to provenience rather than by record type. Also, although folders were numbered sequentially, there...

There is no report associated with this investigation. The county symbol employed is MO for Monroe County. There is a single accession number, 3976, associated with this investigation of site 12MO133. Based on the information found in the original GBL catalog these artifacts were collected by Herbert Sisson and donated to GBL on May 1, 1976. Based on the original box labels it is believed that the artifacts were recovered during survey, but the original collection year is unknown. Therefore the...

This collection is referred to as "Site 12MO194 N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a tenth of a linear inch. Two photographic materials were removed from this collection to a photography storage folder. Writing on the color slides indicated that they were of site 12MO194; however, there was no additional information about this site or of any archaeological investigation that took place. The digital...

This collection is referred to as "Site 12MO301 N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a tenth of a linear inch. Two photographic materials were removed from this collection to a photography storage folder. Writing on the color slides indicated that they were of site 12MO301; however, there was no additional information about this site or of any archaeological investigation that took place. The digital...

An archaeological investigation of site 23PO309 in Polk County, Missouri, was conducted in 1967, prior to the construction of Stockton Lake; however, there is no report or documentation associated with this investigation. The VCP could not determine why this investigation was initiated or who supervised the fieldwork. An Archaeological Survey of Missouri Survey Sheet for 23PO309 that was available from the State Historic Preservation Office revealed that Rolland E. Pangborn recorded 23PO309, a...

The Smith’s Fork Site (23CL223) is located on Smithville Lake, which is a USACE Kansas City District subject property located in Clay County, Missouri. In 2000, the City of Smithville proposed the construction of a soccer field in the area of the site. A USACE archaeologist visited the site and recommended that further testing would need to occur to determine if building could go below a depth of eight inches. In 2007, the city renewed its interest in building at this location; so another USACE...

State Recreation Areas Arbitrary Investigation 1979–1985 is comprised of numerous small investigations. All materials had been stored in the same AAL box, and the associated documentation did not clarify which artifacts or accession numbers were from different projects. The only known investigations in this collection were identified using the AAL project numbers 79FR11 and 79IA6, which were identified on a box list supplied by AAL. It is believed that these two project numbers are related and...

This collection is referred to as "State Road Relocations 1979.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1) linear inch. The investigation dates from 1977 to 1979. The investigation occurred primarily in 1979, which explains the date in the project name. The range of dates also includes earlier administrative correspondence regarding the project proposal and contracts. The documents were originally housed...

This collection is referred to as "State Route 3003 Relocation along Georges Creek 1995.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1.0) linear inch. State Route 3003 Relocation along Georges Creek 1995 was originally stored with other documents from the Grays Landing Lock and Dam subject property. The different document collections were processed separately. This document collection consisted of two identical...

No documentation is present for the investigations that comprise the Stewart County Arbitrary 1969-1978 Investigations. Some of dates of the investigations are unknown, but based on the dates that are present it appears that the investigations took place from 1969 to 1978. Despite the lack of documentation pertaining to these investigations, some information on the sites could be found in an older report. Harold Huscher investigated some of the sites in 1958 and published a report in 1959...

This collection is referred to as “Stockton Lake Project 1984–1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is four and three-quarters (4.75) linear inches. The records in this collection include paper, photographic, oversized, and electronic documents categorized as Administrative, Background, Field, Analysis, and Report Records. The documents include correspondence, reservoir maps, survey and test excavation...

This collection is referred to as The Stockton Lake Survey and Assessment 1992–1993. This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one half (0.5) of a linear inch. The documents in the investigation are both paper and electronic and include administrative, background, and report records. In particular, the documents include a property disposition voucher, transmittal documents for two archaeological reports, copies of...

Stockton Lake Survey and Wimmer Collection 1992–1993 is somewhat unique in that it includes materials that were recovered from the Stockton Lake area by an amateur archaeologist, as well as materials that were recovered as part of an official archaeological investigation in the same area. The Stockton Lake Survey and Assessment investigation was carried out in the Stockton Lake areas of Dade, Cedar, and Polk counties, Missouri, between the fall of 1992 and the spring of 1993 by Historic...

The Stonewall Jackson Reservoir Archaeological Investigation was conducted under the National Park Service contract number CX-4000-4-0037 from June to August of 1974. The primary purpose for this archaeological survey was to investigate cultural resources prior to construction of the proposed Stonewall Jackson Dam, a combination flood control and recreation project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District (Beckes 1975) located in north-central West Virginia. The work was...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Savannah District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Washington, DC laboratory in the winter of 2010, and then moved to the Alexandria laboratory in August 2011. The Alexandria VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections project, which is staffed through John Milner Associates, Inc., a cultural resource management...

This collection is referred to as "Survey of 7245 Acres at Strom Thurmond Lake 2000.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is five and a half (5.5) linear inches. Although the fieldwork was conducted in 1997, this document collection is attributed to 2000. The document collection consists solely of a final report, which was originally housed in acidic folders in an acidic box with other Strom Thurmond Lake...

This collection is referred to as "Survey of 7256 Acres of Timber Harvest Area at Strom Thurmond Lake 1995-1996.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is thirty-six (36) linear inches. The documents in this collection date from February 1995 to June 1996. The collection was originally housed in acidic file folders in an acidic cardboard box. The materials were in relatively good condition; however, acidic tape,...

This collection is referred to as "Survey of 8250 Acres of Timber Harvest Area at Strom Thurmond Lake 1996-1997.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is nine (9) linear inches. The documents date from 1997 to 1998. The investigation took place in 1996 and the final report was submitted in 1997, which explains the date range in the project name. The range of dates within the collection also includes later...

This collection is referred to as “Survey of 8450 Acres of Strom Thurmond Lake 1999.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is nineteen (19) linear inches. The documents date from 1996 to 1999. The final report was written in 1999, which explains the date in the collection name. The range of dates also includes background records. The documents were received with other document collections from the Strom Thurmond...

GBL provided the VCP with an electronic catalog entitled “USACE GBL Accession Inventory 11 30 09.” This catalog contained detailed information about each of the investigations within the GBL collection. Because the Patoka Lake investigations did not have individual reports, it was determined that the investigations would be separated based on the information found in the GBL catalog. Therefore, four separate Patoka Lake investigations were created based on the different worksheets within the GBL...

GBL provided the VCP with an electronic catalog entitled “USACE GBL Accession Inventory 11 30 09.” This catalog contained detailed information about each of the investigations within the GBL collection. Because the Patoka Lake investigations did not have individual reports, it was determined that the investigations would be separated based on the information found in the GBL catalog. Therefore, four separate Patoka Lake investigations were created based on the different worksheets within the GBL...

GBL provided the VCP with an electronic catalog entitled USACE GBL Accession Inventory 11 30 09. This catalog contained detailed information about each of the investigations within the GBL collection. Because the Patoka Lake investigations did not have individual reports, it was determined that the investigations would be separated based on the information found in the GBL catalog. Therefore, four separate Patoka Lake investigations were created based on the different worksheets within the GBL...

GBL provided the VCP with an electronic catalog entitled “USACE GBL Accession Inventory 11 30 09.” This catalog contained detailed information about each of the investigations within the GBL collection. Because the Patoka Lake investigations did not have individual reports, it was determined that the investigations would be separated based on the information found in the GBL catalog. Therefore, four separate Patoka Lake investigations were created based on the different worksheets within the GBL...

In 1989, USACE, Kansas City District contracted with Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group (CCRG) to conduct Phase II testing at known sites on the Harry S. Truman Reservoir in Benton, Henry, Hickory, and St. Clair counties, Missouri (Contract No. DACW41-89-C-0102). At least two sites faced impacts from planned recreational development, and all the sites were to be evaluated for eligibility for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. The original contract listed 26 sites for...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta laboratory in April of 2014. The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which was staffed through New South Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Stone Mountain, Georgia between April of 2014 and April of 2015. Between...

The only information present with the Tyrone Mims Arbitrary (1BR?) 1988 investigation was the information written on the bags and the paper tags that arrived with the collection. No report was present for this collection and as a result who Tyrone Mims is, or was, has not been established. It is highly likely that Tyrone Mims was a local man residing around the Walter F. George Lake property and in August of 1988 collected a group of prehistoric ceramics from a wildlife refuge in Barbour County,...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP St. Louis laboratory was established by USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds and staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc. Human skeletal remains (HSR) were removed...

The first step in the rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the document collection. The analytical techniques employed by each organization to recover and process the collections were reviewed to gain familiarity with the archaeological work that had been conducted on the sites. Archival material sent along with this investigative effort included...

The first step in the rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the archival collection. The analytical techniques employed by each organization to recover and process the collections were reviewed to gain familiarity with the previous archaeological work that had been conducted on the sites. The documentation for this investigative effort included the...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Wabash County Excavation N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter of a linear inch. The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Wabash County Survey N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter of a linear inch. The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Wabash Floodplain Archaeological Survey N.D.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The Wabash...

Normally, the VCP only processes USACE collections. The artifacts for Wabash Grant Huntington County (12HU1299–12HU1315) 2008 were originally thought to be USACE owned. The artifacts were processed at the VCP. Later communications between Ball State University collections manager, Christine Keller, Louisville District archaeologist, Jan Marie Hemberger, and MCX CMAC collections manager, Cathy Van Arsdale confirmed that this investigation was not owned by USACE. The investigation was related and...

This collection is referred to as the “Walter F. George River Basin Survey 1960-1971 investigation.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The majority of the documents from this collection date from 1960 to 1971, which explains the date range in the investigation name. However, there is one document that has a date range from 1960 to 1976, which is an oversized map that...