Searching For the Foundation: An Overview of a Historic Industrial Complex in Pensacola, Florida
Author(s): Thomas Grace
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Pensacola, Florida has long served as a key port city for exporting commodities such as lumber and bricks throughout the south. As such, many of the mills, timber/lumber yards, brickworks, and metal yards located throughout West Florida have been left unidentified in terms of production. Site 8ES940, a small-scale industrial area which sits on the bank of Thompson’s Bayou on University of West Florida property being one of many unclassified complexes. A pedestrian survey led to the discovery of this site in 1971, which has since been a point of ambiguity to university researchers. Surface collection and analysis has dated 8ES940 to the late-nineteenth-to-early-twentieth century and indicates that it is likely a sawmill complex or a brickyard based on present structural remains. This paper will analyze the archaeology previously conducted on this site and discuss more recent endeavors and methods to determine what materials were produced within this complex
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Searching For the Foundation: An Overview of a Historic Industrial Complex in Pensacola, Florida. Thomas Grace. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457220)
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Keywords
General
Brick Kiln
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saw mill
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Surface Collection
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1880-1917
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): 1060