The Ekanachattee Trading Post in the Choctawhatchee River

Summary

In March 2017, we received a call from a local property owner and archaeologist suggesting that they may have located an old Anglo-Native American Trading Post in the eastern edges of Chocctawhatchee Bay in Florida. While this part of the bay had never before been surveyed, the proximity of previously identified sites and historical research suggested that this was a likely location for the maritime end of the Ekanachattee Trading Trail from Florida's British Period. During the following months, archaeologists from the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research surveyed the eastern edges of the bay using a variety of techniques to estabilsh a possible location for the Anglo-Native American Trading Post. The resulting data allowed us provided us with interesting conclusions regarding Native American and European trade in the region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions) 2018   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2018

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 760