Landscape Analysis of a Sonoma Coast Doghole Port: Exploring the Intersections of Extractive Industries, Ranching, and Transportation

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Maritime Transportation, History, and War in the 19th-Century Americas" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Historical and archaeological research revealed a landscape dotted with evidence of people’s adaptation to the rugged marine environment of the Sonoma Coast, allowing their families, businesses, and communities to flourish from the mid-19th century into the 20th century. Stewart’s Point was considered one of the most successful ports along the north coast, shipping out various timber products to the San Francisco Bay; while also adapting and diversifying throughout the years to include ranching and recreation. This extremely well preserved cultural maritime landscape was part of a regional network that provides a foundation to investigate the intersections between extractive industries, transportation, cultural ecological change, and adaptation along the Northern California Coast.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• Maritime Transportation, History, and War in the 19th-Century Americas

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 459