Gullah-Geechee Landscapes on Ossabaw Island, Georgia
Author(s): Nicholas Honerkamp; Meredith Gilligan; Taylor Maxie
Year: 2013
Summary
The North End Plantation on Ossabaw Island, Georgia (9CH1062) has been almost continually occupied since the 1760s. Although a large number of enslaved Africans (later Gullah-Geechee) resided there, the remains of three tabby duplexes are the only substantial remains associated with them. This paper summarizes the results of two field seasons of landscape reconstruction that were aimed at identifying the locations of additional non-tabby cabins, historic plantation roadways, and adjacent yard areas associated with the cabins. In conjunction with historic aerial photographs, domestic and architectural artifacts recovered from an extensive systematic survey were used to generate heat maps that bound the Gullah-Geechee occupations at the site over time. The application of this approach at other coastal plantation sites is also presented.
Cite this Record
Gullah-Geechee Landscapes on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Nicholas Honerkamp, Meredith Gilligan, Taylor Maxie. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428535)
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Keywords
General
Gullah-Geechee
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landscapes
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Plantation
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th - 20th centuries
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 698