Monitoring and Digital Documentation of Several Plantations in the Tomoka Basin State Parks

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Tomoka Basin State parks, located in northeast Florida, contain numerous 18th and 19th century plantation and industrial sites dating from the Colonial British through the American Territorial periods. In 2020, the Florida Public Archaeology Network partnered with the Florida Park Service to monitor and document sites through the Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS Florida) program. The team encountered major challenges at the sites, including intermittent flooding and intense vegetation growth. In response to the threat at the sites, they choose to document two site using terrestrial laser scanning. The 3D data helped create public outreach tools and means for precise digital documentation, but also provided information not visible to the naked eye when monitoring. This paper will summarize the overall findings from site monitoring throughout the park and detail the digital documentation of the two sites.

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• Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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