"The Site Was Similar to Others in the City in That it Produced the Unexpected" Excavations at the IAAM Site on Gadsden’s Wharf

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Excavations at the IAAM Site on the former Gadsden’s Wharf exposed elements of a 1790s storehouse and a mid-19th century East Point Rice Mill identified during historic research and earlier test excavations. Excavation of a privy associated with the rice mill recovered a primary deposit of ceramics likely associated with one of the mill owners/operators. Analysis of the vessels present in this assemblage provides a view of the foodways and material culture preferences of middle-class families during Charleston’s late antebellum period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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