Recent Archaeology at the John Joyner Smith Plantation on the Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve, Beaufort County, South Carolina
Author(s): Karen Y. Smith; Meg Gaillard; Natalie Adams Pope
Year: 2022
Summary
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Recent work on SC DNR’s Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve, in Beaufort County, South Carolina, revealed a domestic structure likely associated with J. Joyner Smith’s 700-acre Antebellum Period Sea Island cotton plantation. More than two-dozen features related to the structure and the use of space surrounding the structure were documented through excavation and photogrammetry. In this poster, we highlight our efforts to understand the age and less-well-preserved architectural details of the site. We draw on the architectural features themselves, artifacts found in the surrounding midden, including lath-impressed tabby mortar/plaster, and the rich record of research on dwellings in Beaufort County and beyond.
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Recent Archaeology at the John Joyner Smith Plantation on the Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve, Beaufort County, South Carolina. Karen Y. Smith, Meg Gaillard, Natalie Adams Pope. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA. 2022 ( tDAR id: 469607)
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