Rebuilding The Alexandria Waterfront: Urban Landscape Development and Modifications
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2019
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Rebuilding The Alexandria Waterfront: Urban Landscape Development and Modifications," at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The City of Alexandria is one of the more compelling history destinations in the country, due in no small part to the City’s decision to integrate historic preservation into the revitalization and development. As the redevelopment of the waterfront around Point Lumley continues, recent discoveries provide insight to the City’s initial development and growth. The waterfront near Point Lumley originally consisted of high bluffs overlooking the Potomac. By 1798, these high bluffs had been cut down and spread out on the tidal flats in order to improve access to the deepwater channel. Point Lumley was the location of numerous industries, warehouses and residences during the late 18th and 19th centuries, including shipbuilders, blacksmiths, carpenters, coopers, iron foundries, and commission merchants. This session focuses on the recent archeological work at the Robinson Landing site that was required by the City prior to redevelopment.
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Engineering a waterfront: Bulkhead, cribbing, and grillage construction in Alexandria (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Rebuilding The Alexandria Waterfront: Urban Landscape Development and Modifications" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The alteration of the Alexandria waterfront from a wet, muddy river bank along the Potomac River to a productive port city was accomplished through various stages of infilling which ultimately led to bulkhead, cribbing, and grillage construction to create a more permanent artificial landscape in the...
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Raising Alexandria: 3D Re-creation of 18th and 19th Century Landscape Development and Use on the Alexandria Waterfront. (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Rebuilding The Alexandria Waterfront: Urban Landscape Development and Modifications" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent excavations along the waterfront in Alexandria revealed a myriad of large, intact features including wharves, warehouses, domestic structures, and the Pioneer Mill. Photogrammetry was used to create 3D models of several of the individual features. This paper will briefly discuss some of the...
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Reduce Reuse Repurpose: Ships as landscape modification features (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Rebuilding The Alexandria Waterfront: Urban Landscape Development and Modifications" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ships were an inextricable part of Alexandria's commercial history, both as they traversed the water and as they sat under the waves. As part of Alexandria's expansion into the Potomac River, old and derelict vessels were used to fill in land and build out wharves so that sailing ships could take...
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Shaping the Landscape: A Chronology of Shore Line Changes (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Rebuilding The Alexandria Waterfront: Urban Landscape Development and Modifications" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The shore line of Alexandria, Virginia in the early 18th century sat approximately 300 feet farther west than it does now. In the 18th and 19th centuries the owners of the riverfront lots along union street were encouraged to expand their property, specifically their land, into the Potomac River....