That’s a lot of wood: Excavations of the 1755 Carlyle Warehouse in Alexandria, Virginia.
Author(s): Daniel Baicy
Year: 2017
Summary
In 1755, the Board of Trustees of the City of Alexandria, tasked prominent merchant, Thomas Carlyle with providing the Alexandria with a public warehouse. The warehouse, once built, would be rented out to various merchants on behalf of the town for several decades. The well preserved foundations of one of the earliest public buildings in Alexandria was uncovered beneath nearly 10 feet of building debris along Alexandria’s waterfront. The following is a brief history of the warehouse, the effort to uncover and document the building prior to and during the construction of a luxury hotel, and the results of those excavations compared with the historic record.
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That’s a lot of wood: Excavations of the 1755 Carlyle Warehouse in Alexandria, Virginia.. Daniel Baicy. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435174)
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Keywords
General
18th century
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Alexandria
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Urban Archeology
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th Century
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): 473