New York State Museum and the Public Archaeology Facility, Binghamton University Archaeological Collection

The New York Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) in cooperation with the Federal highway Administration (FHWA) proposes to reconstruct a portion of Rte. 9A between Chambers and West Thames Streets in Lower Manhattan. This area is being considered for reconstruction as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11 , 2001 that destroyed the World Trade Center (WTC) and severely damaged or destroyed nearby structures and transportation infrastructure including portions of Rte. 9A. The...

In 2010, New York State Department of Transportation requested a monitoring plan for areas where deposits associated with the prehistoric and historic occupation of the property may be encountered within the PIN 1805.81 project area. previous investigations indicated it is likely that the depth of these deposits may range from a few centimeters below ground surface to a meter or more depending upon the topographic conditions and historic occupation of the area. The archaeological monitoring and...

The Cultural Resources Survey for PINs 6750.07 and 6006.08 began in September, 1978 and concluded in June, 1980. The first segment involved a partial Paragraph 3 investigation along the alternates in the two PINs. A partial report was filed with the New York State Museum dated January, 1979 which detailed the work completed and reasons for stopping work. The Public Archaeology Facility did not receive authorization in the spring of 1979 to finish work before the crops were planted. By fall of...

The primary managerial goals of Paragraph 4 investigations relevant to PIN 6751.11 are to ascertain horizontal and vertical site boundaries, to identify the cultural affiliations or temporal sequence of site components, and to locate internal site differentiation. The PIN 6751.11 strategies employed to meet these goals included: The systematic excavation of shovel test pits (STPs) at 10 meter intervals, in order to map the horizontal and vertical distribution of cultural material, and to...

This report includes prehistoric and historic background research, in advance of project PIN 1036.01.101. Archaeological fieldwork was conducted within the proposed project area in May 2003 to locate cultural material, and/or features and assess soil integrity. Testing was carried out by hand excavated Shovel Test Pits (STPs) measuring in all undisturbed areas within the current project boundaries. A total of 26 STPs were excavated within the current project boundaries. Two historic sites were...

Staff from the Cultural Resource Survey Program at the New York State Museum completed a reconnaissance survey along Route 9N in the Town of Hadley, Saratoga County, New York during December of 2006. This survey, which was completed through an interagency agreement between the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and the New York State Education Department (NYSED), was conducted according to guidelines and specifications outlined in the New York State Education Department...

Staff from the New York State Museum’s Cultural Resources Survey Program (NYSM-CRSP) conducted a cultural resource survey under an inter-agency agreement with the NYS Department of Transportation (DOT) in October of 2010 under DOT PIN 1085.39.101. This report presents the information gathered during this survey. This survey was conducted according to the State Education Department’s (SED) revised Work Scope Specifications for Cultural Resource Investigations on New York State Department of...

This report presents the results of reconnaissance survey for PIN 6066.58.101, as well as background research on the environment, prehistory, and history of the City of Elmira and the Towns of Ashland, Elmira, and Chemung in Chemung county. Both a walkover of the project area and systematic shovel test pit sampling were performed. Twelve hundred and fourteen test pits were excavated within the project area. Prehistoric material was recovered from 49 STPs, 37 of which were associated with eight...

This project was contracted in advance of construction of NYS route 17 access in order to evaluate the presence of historic and prehistoric cultural resources. Background research for PIN 6066.41.122 was conducted on the environment, prehistory, and history of the Town of Ashland, Chemung County. Human occupation of the area extends to Paleoindian periods, into the historic period (in which the battle of Newton during the American Revolutionary war occured in the project area). This information...

This report is volume 1, of an unknown number of volumes describing the cultural resource management activities performed under PIN 1347.07.122. This volume includes background research on the environmental setting, and both the prehistoric and historic context in the area. A survey was performed in the project area, which included the excavation of shovel test pits. The survey resulted in the identification of 5 prehistoric sites, and 3 historic sites. Of those 8 sites, 4 were recommended...

The goal of this project is to complete a Site Examination for the Henry Stacy Site (NYSM #12283) so that information can be collected to assess the site’s eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places prior to the completion of NYSDOT PIN 3805.44.121 (3 of 5) in the Town of New Haven, Oswego County, New York. Cultural deposits at the Henry Stacy Site cover the entire project area and there were no negative Phase II excavation units. Depth of cultural deposits varied between 25 and...

This report describes the results of an archaeological and architectural reconnaissance survey conducted for PlN 1097.04.101 in the Town of Castleton-on-Hudson, Rensselaer County New York, for the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). The proposed project involves improvements to the drainage and resurfacing of a section of NY Route 9J (North and South Main Street) and NY Route 150 (Scott Avenue) in the village of Castleton. The project description and survey limits were provided...

This report includes background research on known archaeological sites, and historical structures and the environmental context, and a summary of methods. Field methods included photo documentation of field conditions and disturbances, subsurface testing by 40cm shovel test pits, screening of excavated soils, and collection of cultural materials. Analysis of the horizontal and vertical depositions of the small number of artifact finds does not suggest substantial integrity to the locations or...

The project area is to be impacted by a highway reconstruction project proposed by the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT). The majority of archaeological sites along the Nissequogue river and within the region in general, are either poorly documented or consist of ephemeral or isolated finds (Parker 1922). It is along the headwaters of this short river that the Naima Site is strategically located, as this area provided access to multiple ecological zones, including riverine and...

This report describes the results of an architectural evaluation of the Weaver Demarest Site. The evaluation was completed as part of the PIN I 089.51.101 Data Recovery investigation of the Weaver-Demarest Site (97PR2140). The evaluation was conducted by staff of the Cultural Resources Survey Program, with assistance from staff of the Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, in July 1998. The Weaver Demarest Site was previously determined to be Not Eligible for the National...

Data recovery of the Thomas Creek site to mitigate the adverse impacts to cultural resources within the proposed right of way, by the replacement of BIN 1 -00981-0 NY 12A over Thomas Creek and widening of NY 12A in the Town of Chenango.The total site area for the Thomas Creek site is 600 m 2 (19 80 ft2). The Thomas Creek site is a stratified site with late Middle Woodland or very early Late Woodland cultural affiliations. Several other sites dating to these general time periods are located...

The Deansboro Creamery Co. Site (NYSM 12220, A06514.000044) is comprised of primarily historic late nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial and architectural debris associated with stone masonry piers and a masonry boiler platform. The piers and the artifacts mark the location of a cheese factory originally built in 1886 or 1887, burned in 1891, rebuilt and used as a cheese factory until 1902. It was later refitted and used as a gate factory and as a warehouse between 1911 and the...

This report represents the results of phase II Site Examination for the Following Sites: The Rogers Island Bridge Street Site (NYSM #11617) prehistoric and historic, and the #3 Bridge Street Site (NYSM #11645) prehistoric and historic. Multiple levels of occupation and land use are definable at the Rogers Island-Bridge Street site. Modern road, bridge, and home construction have only slightly impacted the upper levels of the site. The deepest portions of the tested area produced prehistoric...

This report describes the results of an architectural survey performed in April 1998, by the Cultural Resource Survey Program (CRSP) of the New York State Education Department (SED), for New York State Department of Transportation PIN 1089.57.101 - US 4: Fort Edward to Hudson Falls. The goals of the survey were to identify and evaluate all architectural properties within the project area, and to make recommendations of potentially eligible properties to the State Historic Preservation Office....

The purpose of this report is to aid in the description and interpretation of soils exposed by some recent archaeological excavations on the Nutten Hook Preserve, and to begin to place the area into the broader contexts of the Late Pleistocene - Holocene geomorphological and geoarchaeological history of the Hudson River valley. Examination of profiles made in 10 small archaeological excavation units in the area of a proposed pavilion reveals the presence of at least four Historic...

In September and October of 2011, a survey crew from the New York State Museum's Cultural Resource Survey Program (NYSM-CRSP) conducted a Phase IB reconnaissance survey of PIN 3287.20.101/BIN 4046860 in the Towns of Lysander and Salina (MCD# 06709/06715), Onondaga County, New York (Figure 1). The survey was conducted for the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) through the New York State Education Department's interagency agreement with NYSDOT. The project entails the...

This project includes reports including a data plan, an archaeological monitoring and treatment report, a pre-reconnaissance and reconnaissance report, an architectural survey, and site examination report relating to the investigation of the PIN 0757.46.121 project area.

This report presents an Archaeological Monitoring and Data Recovery Plan for Grangebel Park, located in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. The New York Department of Transportation (NYS DOT) in cooperation with the Federal highway Administration (FHWA) and the Town of Riverhead Community Development Agency have proposed improvements to Grangebel Park as part of a larger, more comprehensive plan to revitalize Riverhead. No prior archaeological investigations are known to have been...

This report presents a Monitoring, Treatment and Data Recovery Plan for Grangebel Park, located in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. The New York Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) in cooperation with the Federal highway Administration (FHWA) and the Town of Riverhead Community Development Agency have proposed improvements to Grangebel Park as part of a larger, more comprehensive plan to revitalize Riverhead. No prior archaeological investigations are known to have been...

This is a report on the results of a cultural resources pre-reconnaissance survey for PIN 0757 .46. 121, the proposed improvements to Grangebel Park, located in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York (MCD 10306). The survey was conducted in Winter of 2005 by the staff from the Cultural Resource Survey Program at the New York State Museum, as part of an interagency agreement between the New York State Department of Transportation and the New York State Education Department. All field...

A total of three archaeological sites, one prehistoric and two historic, were identified during the reconnaissance survey of Grangebel Park. Two of the three, the Grangebel Park Site (NYSM# 11619) and the Griffing Site (NYSM# 11620) contained intact archaeological deposits underneath disturbed fill, and were therefore subjected to more intensive excavation during the subsequent site examination survey. Subsurface testing conducted within the bounds of the third site, the Bridge Street Carriage...

This project contains reports falling under PIN 2016.66.101 which include historical background research, and field evaluation of historical architecture in advance of construction under PIN 2016.77.101, as well as systematic archaeological field survey of the project area. The architectural survey identified four historical building properties are located within the project limits. All four have been evaluated as non-NRE properties older than fifty years. A total of 162 artifacts were...

This report includes background and field research in advance of construction entailed in PIN 2016.77.101. Photographs were taken of the project area to illustrate any disturbances, as well as to document field conditions, and project area context. Prior co excavations, a walkover survey was done, with additional focus on areas where potential MDSs were located, according to historic map information. No foundations or other structural features were identified during this walkover survey. The...

This report includes historical background research, and field evaluation of historical architecture in advance of construction under PIN 2016.77.101. Four building properties are located within the project limits. All four have been evaluated as non-NRE properties older than fifty years.

This project contains archaeological reports generated as the result of PIN 5002.07.121. 1996 investigations including archaeological and architectural survey in advance of plans for proposed improvements to New York State Route 18F, and the addition of a pedestrian walkway. Records search indicated the presence of 18 prehistoric sites within 2 miles of the project area, and no structures located on properties falling within the project area had been inventoried, or were listed on the State...

An archaeological, and an architectural survey were performed in advance of plans for proposed improvements to New York State Route 18F, and the addition of a pedestrian walkway. The location of eighteen prehistoric sites within 3.2 kIn (2 mi) of the project area, and its position adjacent to the Niagara River, suggest that the project area is established in an area of high sensitivity for prehistoric resources. The location of the project area adjacent to the Niagara River but away from the...

This addendum to the PIN 5002.07.121 added areas in the Towns of Lewiston and Porter, Niagara county. One purpose of this addendum was to determine the boundaries of the Lindesay Site, and to determine if the Data Recovery Plan would need to be modified accordingly. This project report examines additional historical properties not surveyed in the survey carried out during the initial survey of Lower River Road (NY 18F) between the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown in 1996. There are 65...

This document presents a Data Recovery Plan (DRP) for a portion of the prehistoric Lindesay Site (SUBi-1705, NYSM #10316), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) PIN 5002.07.121 in the Town of Porter, Niagara County, New York (Figure 1). Included within this document is a description of the site, the prehistoric context of the region, and the research objectives for this Data Recovery. Also included is a proposed field and analysis strategy for the retrieval and interpretation of...

The Lindesay Site overlooks the Lower Niagara River. The Lindesay Site occurs on a relatively undisturbed upland landscape. The soils are characterized by a strong degree of profile development indicative of their age. The site occurs on mature upland soils with little or no disturbance from plowing. Extensive testing for the PIN 5002.07.321 project encountered four other sites (Lewiston I, II, III, and Stella Niagara) in the vicinity of the Lindesay Site. Lewiston II and III were located just...

This project consists of two reports under Project 6066.41.101. Kastl 1996 presents the findings of the architectural reconnaissance for PIN 6066.41.101, which is located on NY Route 17 and County Roads 8 and 60 in the Town of Ashland in Chemung County, and Loren et al. 1996 present historical, and prehistoric background research of the project area, along with field investigations.

Structures adjacent to the project area are described and photographed in relation to the project boundaries. Basic data gathered for each structure included location, function, and age of the structure. For structures that are older than 50 years, information that documents the history of ownership, architectural description, modifications, integrity, associated outbuildings and landscape features was also collected. For structures that appear to be potentially eligible for inclusion in the...

Background research including an evaluation of the geology and environment, a walkover of the project area, prehistoric site files check and an evaluation of the sensitivity of prehistoric sites. The historical background research included a site files check and a summary of the history of the PIN 6066.41.101 project area. Field investigations included descriptions of: The Ashland Site, The Bosworth Site, The Lamb Site, The Lowman Distillery Site, The Railroad Site, The Baldwin Creek Site,...

This project contains archaeological reports generated as the result of PIN 9002.09, including a cultural resource management survey that includes both paragraph 3 reconnaissance and paragraph 4 site examination in the PIN 900.09/BIN 1-00981-0 project area in Broome County, New York, as well as a Data Recovery Plan for the Thomas Creek Site (SUBi-1546/NYSM #10135). Paragraph 4 examinations were performed on the Thomas Creek Site, which was found have artifacts diagnostic of Middle and Late...

The principal managerial goals of Paragraph 3 archaeological reconnaissance are the identification and inventory of all potentially significant cultural resources in the area of proposed construction.The strategies utilized include: 1. background research detailing the history, prehistory, environment and archaeological sensitivity of the area; 2. walkover of the project area to locate sites and evaluate the topography of the area; 3. systematic subsurface testing of the project area; 4....

The Thomas Creek Site (SUBi-1546, NYSM #10135) was identified in 1994 during a cultural resource management reconnaissance survey in NYSDOT Region 9 (Loren, Rafferty and Kastl 1994). Following the completion of the survey and review of the findings by the New York State Museum (NYSM) and NYSDOT, a site examination was performed. In 1995 the Thomas Creek Site was declared eligible for the National Register of Historic Places and a Data Recovery was requested by the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation...

This project contains reports generated as part of archaeological investigations for PIN 9041.12.121 In April of 1994, the Public Archaeology Facility (PAF) through the Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton contracted with the State Education Department of New York to perform Paragraph 3 and 4 cultural resource surveys for the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) highway projects located in Regions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. The Paragraph 4 site...

The White Site for most of its occupation was occupied by a sequence of railroad laborer families, largely of Irish descent. Irish-American labor was integral in the construction and operation of the American railway system during the mid to late 19th century. The expansion of alternative transportation networks and the expansion of suburban residential areas led to the replacement of small, laborer households during the late 19th and early 20th century. Mid to late 19th century laborer...

Over the course of paragraph 3 background research and fieldwork in 1993, one prehistoric, and three historic sites were discovered. The principal goal of Paragraph 4 site examination for this project is to gather sufficient information on the 3 historic archaeological sites to allow the federal agencies to make determinations of eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. For each site, such information minimally includes horizontal and vertical boundaries in relation to the...

This data recovery plan outlines historical data relevant to the White site, its potential importance in understanding immigrant Irish lifeways and suggestions for the recovery of data from the site. Based on the available documentary evidence, it appears that the White Site was inhabited for most of the mid to late 19th century by Irish immigrant laborers who were associated with the nearby New York and Erie railroad. The majority of Irish immigrants came from a landed, farming class until...