Chocolate Plantation

The origin of Chocolate Plantation (9MC96) as a historic and as an archaeological entity involves a complex narrative. Located on the west side of Sapelo Island, directly adjacent to the Mud River (Figures 1 and 2), Chocolate is situated in an area that proved to be suitable for both prehistoric and historic habitation, a claim that will become abundantly clear in this report. In fact, although this site possesses numerous substantial tabby ruins, it was first defined in the Georgia State Site...

The origin of Chocolate Plantation (9MC96) as a historic and as an archaeological entity involves a complex narrative. Located on the west side of Sapelo Island, directly adjacent to the Mud River (Figures 1 and 2), Chocolate is situated in an area that proved to be suitable for both prehistoric and historic habitation, a claim that will become abundantly clear in this report. In fact, although this site possesses numerous substantial tabby ruins, it was first defined in the Georgia State Site...

REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS Antonio J. Waring, Jr. Archaeological Laboratory University of West Georgia, Carrollton

Chocolate Plantation on Sapelo Island has been the subject of several archaeological studies, beginning with a 1974 archaeological field school directed by West Georgia College's Dr. Lewis Larson (Juengst 1980), and most recently in the form of a remote sensing exercise by the University of Mississippi (Simmons 2004). An accurate site map ofthe plantation and detailed drawings oftabby structures, including the location oftwenty structures and substructures along with tree lines, site elevation...

REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS Antonio J. Waring, Jr. Archaeological Laboratory University of West Georgia, Carrollton

Field Work Proposal 2006

Correspondence regarding damage caused through Chimney Stabilization

Field Notes 2006

Field Work 2006 Artifact Data Sheets

Various maps displaying Chocolate Plantation Location and Excavation Profiles

Community settlement-pattern analysis, focusing upon the spatial structure of material remains represented at a single archaeological site, provides a firm basis for re­ constructing a wide range of synchronic. and diachronic cultural phenomena. The potential of the approach for sociocultural explanation of the archaeological record is well documented. 1 The purpose of this paper is to present information concerning changes in the gross configura­ tion of community settlement patterns at Bourbon...

Georgia State Preservation Proposal/Plan

Memos of meeting to discuss deterioration of historic structures (Tabby) and how to prevent them from further destruction through elements, and GPS recordings of the historic structures.

Back-to-back archaeological surveys on Sapelo Island, Georgia by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have concentrated on two sites: a substantial, intensively occupied plantation dating primarily to the first half of the 19th century (Chocolate) and an earlier, sporadically occupied operation that included a short-lived French component (High Point). This paper compares the archaeological manifestations of slave occupations at both sites and identifies distinct material contrasts...

Prehistoric Ceramics, Historic Ceramics, buttons, beads, iron, straps, stone, personal historic items

Archaeology Day 5/29/2006 - Photos Various

2006 Excavations - Field School Photos, Week 1 - 5

Georgia State Historic Archives - Sapelo Photos

Photos of the W4W 2007 Excavation at the Chocolate Plantation, Sapelo Island

Photo Summary