Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Other Keywords
Plantation • Survey • Gardens • Slavery • Kitchen • Shrine • Landscape Archaeology • Chesapeake Region • Colonial Port • Gis Modeling

Geographic Keywords
Mid-Atlantic • Chesapeake • Maryland • Anne Arundel County, MD • Chesapeake, Mid-Atlantic

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  • Foreseeing Freedom: Discovery of an Enslaved Family’s Subfloor Storage Pit and Religious/Magical Shrine at the South Dependency Slave Quarters of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (44AR0017) (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew R. Virta.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A major rehabilitation project was undertaken from 2017-2020 at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, a National Park Service site preserving portions of an antebellum plantation in Arlington County, Virginia. The site includes the mansion, dependencies, and immediate grounds constructed between 1802 and...

  • Geospatial Modeling of Regional Site Data (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ray Sarnacki. Jim Gibb.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists collect and store a great deal of information from sites, but the underlying, non-agricultural data are not readily available to other researchers. Layers of information are contained in a loose web of paper forms, digital data spreadsheets or PDF files, if they can be accessed at all. We discuss a...

  • Salubria, It's Gardens, and Extended Contexts: A Case Study of an 18th-Century Virginia Mansion (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Larsen.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. "Salubria" is the oldest brick structure in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 1757 house, today, is unique in its presentation and interpretation. Preliminary archaeology, done in 2019, focused on the landscape surrounding the structure. In contemplating the season's results over the spring months of the Pandemic,...

  • Stew Stoves in the British Atlantic: An Example from Monticello (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal L O'Connor. Fraser D Neiman.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1789 enslaved chef James Hemings prepared elite French cuisine at Monticello on one of the earliest stew stoves in Virginia. His owner, Thomas Jefferson, had taken Hemings to Paris five years earlier to be trained in preparing French cuisine. Recently archaeologists at Monticello excavated Monticello's first...

  • Unmasking Joppa Town: Attempting to locate a colonial port town near Baltimore (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Fracchia. Nikki Pratt. Christopher Zale. Zihan Chen.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Joppa Town was a bustling port in the 18th century and the county seat of Baltimore County. The influential town included a jail, courthouse, church, warehouses, and residences. Like so many colonial ports, silting of the harbor doomed access to the town, and by 1768, the county seat was transferred to Baltimore...

  • "…The untarnished honor of our ancestors…": Transforming Landscape and Memory at James Monroe’s Highland (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle W. Edwards.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archaeological research at James Monroe’s Highland has focused on reconstructing and interpreting the plantation landscape as it existed during Monroe’s ownership of the property. While archaeological data has provided clarity to our understanding of the Monroe Period, it has also revealed the way in which...