Return To The 'Queen City of the West': Preliminary Investigations at the Port of Indianola, Texas

Samuel M Cuellar

Return To The 'Queen City of the West': Preliminary Investigations at the Port of Indianola, Texas

Year: 2017

Summary

Indianola, Texas was the commercial gem of the western Gulf of Mexico during the height of its existence, from the late 1850s until its abandonment in 1887. Responsible for much of the commerce entering western Texas and the western territories via the Gulf of Mexico, Indianola has been largely overlooked archaeologically, despite a high potential for the presence of a significant amount of cultural materials. A team of archaeologists from Texas A&M University, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, and the Texas Historical Commission undertook a three-week marine remote sensing survey investigation of the area in the summer of 2016 to gain a better understanding of the site’s formation processes and extent of cultural remains. This paper presents the preliminary findings of the team from their 2016 fieldwork.

Cite this Record

Return To The 'Queen City of the West': Preliminary Investigations at the Port of Indianola, Texas. Samuel M Cuellar. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435491)