CCSFS - Archaeology Reports

DOCUMENT Full-Text James J. Miller.

The study is intended to comply with federal historic preservation mandates in determining whether the proposed construction of the United Space Booster Facility Tract on Merritt Island will have an effect on cultural resources eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, or otherwise of national, state or local significance. No sites of significance were found on that part of the tract proposed for development and it is recommended that the project be cleared with respect...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard L. Smith.

This archaeological reconnaissance was undertaken by Florida Technological University personnel at the request of NASA for purposes of determining whether or not prehistoric or historic cultural remains occur in the area of the proposed Solid Rocket Booster Facility site, to be located not far south of the present VAB structure on Merritt Island. The survey resulted in locating only one historical site marked by remnants of a brick chimney and scattered domestic artifacts. No further evidence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark C. Cleary.

This study begins with a summary of the major events leading up to the REDSTONE missile program at Cape Canaveral. It includes an overview of RAF Bomber Command’s raid against Peenemünde in August 1943 and the U.S. Army’s recruitment of Wernher von Braun and his ‘hand-picked’ team of rocket experts in 1945. It continues with a sketch of the Army’s early missile projects at Fort Bliss, Texas, and the recommendations that shaped the REDSTONE missile.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Betsy Carlson.

Southeastern Archaeological Research, Inc. (SEARCH) has completed a Phase 1 cultural resource survey of the above referenced project on behalf of GeoSyntec Consultants, acting as consultant to Cingular and Crown Castle International. As part of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permitting process for cell towers as required by the National Environmental Protection Act, Cingular must consider the effects of the proposed undertaking on cultural resources. The purpose of this survey was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lee Terzis.

PBS&J, on behalf of Dial Cordy and Associates, Inc. and the Canal Port Authority of Port Canaveral, conducted a reconnaissance-level cultural resources assessment of lands adjacent to the Canaveral Barge Canal on March 30 and 31, 2006. The Canal Port Authority plans to dredge the canal and to make other safety and navigation improvements. The Canal Port Authority proposes to enlarge the Canaveral Barge Canal to a width of 500 feet in selected locations, and to remove land composed of dredge...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Penders. Samantha Pietruszewski.

The results of the investigation found that at least half of the Little Midden Site (BR1933) had been mined for fill to be used at the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and to stabilize unpaved roads during the 1950s. In spite of this portions of the site were still intact as evident by the presence of features and dense midden. The site does have the potential to yield additional information and as such is NRHP eligible under Criteria D. In addition human remains were found at the site and were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Penders.

In support of the Habitat Restoration Program at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) a program to systematically conduct cultural resource surveys of land management units (LMUs) was established. The purpose of the cultural resource surveys is to identify and establish boundaries of previously unrecorded archaeological sites. In January 2009 a survey was conducted of LMU 109 and is the subject of this report. Land Management Unit 109 was subjected to a cultural resources assessment to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Penders.

In 2007, personnel conducting a census of the Florida Scrub Jay population at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) reported finding prehistoric ceramics at the tip of the base within an unpaved road. A check of the databases confirmed this was an unrecorded site and a preliminary surface survey was conducted. The 45 SW CRM returned to the location in 2008 to conduct a formal Phase 1 archaeological survey. The purpose of the cultural resource survey was to identify the archaeological site and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith H. Ashley. Marsha A. Chance.

During April 1997, a cultural resource assessment survey was conducted of a proposed dredged material management area and associated pipeline access route in Brevard County, Florida. The intent of this survey was to locate and assess the potential significance of all cultural resources within the proposed BV-11 dredged spoil location and associated pipeline route.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Oceanprobe, Inc.

A cultural resources investigation was conducted to investigate a potential borrow area offshore Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean. Field work was conducted in February 1988, utilizing a proton precession magnetometer, precision echosounder and digitizer, microwave positioning system with three lines of position, computerized data acquisition and track guidance system, all deployed from a specialized nonmetallic shallow draft survey vessel. A total of 132 magnetic anomalies were detected...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mid-Atlantic Technology.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District is proposing a plan that will involve transferring 530,000 cubic yards of sand from the north side of Canaveral Barge Canal Inlet at Cape Canaveral, Florida and placing it on the beach south of the inlet over a distance of 11,885 feet. Because of the potential for historic shipwrecks in the proposed project area, the Jacksonville District through their open-ended planning contract with Gulf Engineers and Consultants, Inc., of Baton Rouge,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T9S, Inc..

This report discusses the purpose, time frame, location, equipment used, methodology, personnel, environmental conditions, data gathered, findings and recommendations of a magnetic remote sensing survey conducted by T9S, Inc., in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This report also contains a brief history regarding maritime activities in the general area of Cape Canaveral.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wes Hall.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, is proposing to construct additional shore protection in southern Brevard County, Florida. A single borrow area (Space Coast Shoals II) and a sand re-handling area (South Reach Sand Rehandling Area) will be utilized during the proposed project. To insure that no significant shipwrecks or other archaeological resources are adversely effected by the planned offshore shore protection project, the Jacksonville District contracted Mid-Atlantic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wilfred M. Husted.

During July 13-15, 1981, there was a visit to Patrick Air Force Base (AFB), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (AFS) and six nearby tracking and communications stations to obtain information to develop a plan and cost estimate for a cultural resource survey and evaluation of these eight facilities. After visiting Patrick AFB and the six ancillary stations, it became apparent that there was little probability of discovering significant cultural resources at any of these seven areas.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan Brech.

In December 20I4, B&B Enterprises Inc. arranged for supplemental archaeological testing on a piece of property in Cape Canaveral Florida that they were in the process of selling to Cumberland Farms Inc. (a subsidiary of Gulf Oil) for development into a gasoline station. These tests were intended to supplement an archeological survey conducted on the same property in 2006 by Environmental Services Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven H. Koski.

From March 14 to March 30, 2005, New South Associates (NSA) conducted a Phase I Cultural Resources Assessment Survey of the proposed Payload Processing Operations Facility (PPOF), located at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The study was conducted to assess the potential effects of any cultural resource within the APE of the proposed undertaking and whether it would have adverse effect. The study consisted of background research and a field survey phase.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert H. Baer.

This report describes a cultural resource magnetometer investigation of four delineated areas which may be potentially affected by proposed expansions to the nearshore borrow area of the Canaveral Harbor Federal Sand Bypass Project. Areas A and B extend about 3,440 ft northward of the existing borrow limits, and represent the nearshore (submerged) and upland portions of this extension, respectively. Area C is landward of the existing borrow limits, and corresponds to that portion of the upland...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Funk.

Heartland Treasure Quest, Inc. (HTQ) has continued as "work in progress" over the last fifteen years to refine the exploration, and in 2013-2014 diligently conducted historic assessment, terrestrial, and submerged cultural resources investigation with four Contractors, five vessels, one helicopter at the same time. This is relative to a suspected early 18th-century shipwreck(s) located off Cocoa, Satellite and Melbourne Beach, Brevard County, Florida in an effort to locate, identify, and assess...

DOCUMENT Full-Text George A. Long.

This report opens with a general outline of what, is known about the archaeology and early history of East Central Florida, providing some background information for the layman concerning the nature of the area's archeological sites and the time periods into which they fit. The greatest portion of the report contains survey findings which locate and describe Indian and historic sites at KSC. It is intended that this paper should provide a useful reference document for the Kennedy Space Center...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Global Marine Exploration, Inc..

Exploration of the area around Cape Canaveral, Florida had always been in the plans and our researchers and historians had already amassed a large list of potential targets in the area. The delays in the DR helped facilitate an accelerated time-line for beginning operations near Cape Canaveral. GME crews began the exploration of the shoals and sand bars in the area early in 2014.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Victoria Morrison.

Survey Log Sheet for a Florida Master Site File on the National Historic Landmark Condition Reports for the NASA-Kennedy Space Center owned facilities: Launch Complex 5/6, Launch Complex 19, Launch Complex 34, Mission Control Center.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Denise Cerniglia.

Florida Site File Survey Log for the report of Paleoindian and Early Archaic Potentials of the Continental Shelf in the Southeast US. From Virginia to Texas, archaeological sites which are now inundated or near the coast but were once inland as well as the sites containing coastal and marine resources are included in this synthesis. Environmental changes, including the phases of the last glacial recession and oscillations of the early Holocene are considered as determinants of known and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Justin C. Stickler. Lee Terzis. Daniel T. Penton.

The Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast has contracted with PBS&J to conduct a Phase I Archaeological Assessment of Site 8BR1641 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Brevard County, Florida. The purpose in visiting this site was to ascertain the extent, nature, and integrity of site 8BR1641, and to determine National Register of Historic Places (National Register) eligibility.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Martin Healey.

In January 2012, LG2 Environmental Solutions, Inc. conducted a Phase I Structural and Cultural Resource Survey on a 1.87 ±acre site located within the Miami Air and Marine Branch facility, which is further located within the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Florida. The survey included a comprehensive background research phase and a field-survey phase consisting of very limited subsurface shovel testing within the 1.85±-acre parcel according to the Scope of Work for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Global Marine Exploration, Inc..

Global Marine Exploration intends to locate and identify the potentially significant cultural deposits within the permit boundaries, in order to assess the significance of each site and determine to what extent they are imperiled by weather, galvanic processes, trawling, looting or other anthropogenic agencies. This information will be used to determine which sites require excavation and recovery or other management strategies to prevent further destruction.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gordon P. Watts, Jr..

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has proposed a shore protection project for two reaches along the Atlantic coastline in Brevard County, Florida. Sand for this project is to be dredged from four borrow areas in the Atlantic Ocean between Cape Canaveral and Patrick Air Force Base. In addition, a 1994 remote sensing investigation identified eight potentially significant targets within of one of those borrow areas. In order to determine the proposed project's effects on...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew D. W. Lydecker. Michael K Faught. Stephen R. James, Jr..

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District is proposing to dredge sand from existing offshore borrow areas, Canaveral Shoals 1 and 2 located off Florida's central eastern coast, approximately 1 mile southeast of Cape Canaveral. In order to comply with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' responsibilities towards cultural resources, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee, was contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a comprehensive remote sensing survey of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wendy Weaver.

On May 6, 2014, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District conducted a submerged cultural resources remote sensing survey of the North Reach Nearshore Disposal and Sand Rehandling Area (NDSRA) extension offshore of Brevard County, Florida, on submerged state lands. This survey was conducted to identify the presence or absence of submerged cultural resources within the NDSRA extension area and is an addendum to the initial survey by Watts (2000). The submerged cultural resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gordon P. Watts, Jr..

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, has proposed to construct a widener in the outer entrance channel to Canaveral Harbor, Florida. In order to determine the effects of the proposed construction on significant underwater cultural resources, Tidewater Atlantic Research, Inc., (TAR) of Washington, North Carolina was contracted by the Jacksonville District to conduct an archival and literature search and a remote sensing survey to locate, identify, and assess the significance...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kimberly Hinder. Carrie Scupholm. Joan Deming.

In 1996, Archaeological Consultants, Inc. (ACI) entered into contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide cultural resource management services as part of NASA's KSC-Wide Archaeological and Historic Facility Survey. Proposed professional services included both basic contract work, as well as contract option tasks. The purposes of the basic contract were two-fold: (1) to complete an archaeological survey within a portion of the John F. Kennedy Space Center...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Irving Rouse.

The present volume is concerned with the research done in the Indian River area. This research had its inception in a suggestion by James B. Griffin that Yale and the University of Michigan undertake joint excavation at the site of South Indian Field in the center of the area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wes Hall.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, has proposed to widen the entrance channel to Canaveral Harbor, Brevard County, Florida. Because of the potential for shipwrecks and other submerged cultural resources in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral, the Jacksonville District contracted Tidewater Atlantic Research, Inc. (TAR) of Washington, North Carolina, to conduct a literature search and remote sensing survey to identify any submerged cultural resources in the vicinity of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse C. Smith. Sam A. Staples.

The Division of Historical Resources has entered into a Search Contract (E-101) with Reale Gold, Inc., and Galleon Artifacts Corp., both Florida corporations. This contract area is off the coast of north Brevard County, Florida, in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral, and is approximately 12 nautical miles long, 1 nautical mile wide at the north end, and 1 nautical mile wide at the south end, forming a triangle shape. Reale Gold, Inc., and Galleon Artifacts Corp. have agreed to work under the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Russo.

This report is a condensed and updated version of a report of an archeological and historical survey conducted within the Zaremba Communities Tract, Wabasso Beach, Indian River County, Florida, on file at the Florida State Museum.