Landscape History and the Built Environment at Liberty Hall

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Like all landscapes, the one at Liberty Hall has been dramatically impacted by the people who lived here. Originally part of the Monacan Indian Nation's homeland for at least a thousand years, the hilltop site's proximity to a significant ford over the north branch of the James River and a pair of strong-flowing springs attracted first colonial farmers and then the Liberty Hall Academy, which was a predecessor to Washington and Lee University. After the academy moved in 1803, the site became a slave plantation. Fifty years of archaeological, historical, and oral historical research here has produced significant landscape-level data about the built environment and people who lived and labored at Liberty Hall. Using modern digital technology, we can begin to create models detailing this complex and ever-changing historical landscape with the recognition that these models will be refined and transformed as our ongoing work generates new data. This poster will show how this work has progressed over the last decade of research.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38048.0