Exploring The Rustic Life, Volume I, Millwood Plantation 1980

Part of the Millwood Plantation 1980 project

Author(s): Charles E. Orser; Annette M. Nekola; James L. Roark

Year: 1987

Summary

Six hypotheses are presented and evaluated using archaeological historical, and bio-cultural data collected from Millwood Plantation and two small satellite sites located within the floodpool of the Richard B. Russell Reservoir currently being constructed. Millwood Plantation, located along the Savannah River in Abbeville County, South Carolina and Elbert County, Georgia, was owned and operated by James Edward Calhoun from 1832 until his death in 1889. After Calhoun's death, a number of tenants and share croppers remained on the estate. The two small sites (J8AB12 and 9EB253) are related to this settlement and perhaps to an earlier use of the property during the operation of the plantation. Detailed historical and archaeological analyses are used to address the hypotheses and a picture of Millwood Plantation as a social and historical entity during the nineteenth century is offered.

This is Volume 1 and covers Chapters 1 through 3

Cite this Record

Exploring The Rustic Life, Volume I, Millwood Plantation 1980. Charles E. Orser, Annette M. Nekola, James L. Roark. 1987 ( tDAR id: 445697) ; doi:10.6067/XCV87H1NGK

Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Foodways • Glass • Human Remains • Metal • Textile • Wood

Site Name
38AB12 • 38AB9 • 9EB253

Site Type
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Brick Chimney • brick floor • Brick Oven/Boiler • Brick Pile • Cemetery • Commercial or Industrial Structures • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Ferry Landing • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hearth • House • Mill • millstone • Refuse Pile • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Road • Stone Foundation • turbine

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research

General
Collections Management

Geographic Keywords
Abbeville County (County) • Elbert County (County) • Georgia (State / Territory) • Savannah River • South Carolina (State / Territory)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.816; min lat: 33.927 ; max long: -82.566; max lat: 34.371 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Contributor(s): Caroline C. Douglass; John E. Fairey, III; Theodore J. Karamanksi; Josselyn Flowers Moore; E. Elizabeth Pillaert

Principal Investigator(s): Charles E. Orser

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District

Sponsor(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District

Repository(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District

Prepared By(s): Mid-American Research Center, Loyola University of Chicago

Submitted To(s): Archeological Services Division, National Park Service, Southeast Region

Record Identifiers

Former Contract #(s): C54042(80)

Contract #(s): CX 5000-0-4042

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include archival photographs, the finding aid, original investigation reports, oversized material spreadsheet, photographic material spreadsheet, and scanned asset key. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include, background reports, correspondence, disclosure agreements, disposition form, document folder listing, informant release form, initial data collection, interview transcripts, memorandums for record, magazine articles, maps, notes, report records, tape logs, transcript logs, and a transcript of contract. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

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