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Ohio History
“‘The Most Free of the Free States:’ Politics, Slavery, Race, and Regional Identity in Early Ohio,”
2014 •
John Craig Hammond
Before the Western Reserve, An Archaeological History of Northeast Ohio
Brian G Redmond
Archaeological Survey of the Reinhardt Tract Property through a Certified Local Government (CLG) Grant on behalf of the City of Columbus in Harrison Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, Volume I: Survey Results
Kevin C. Nolan, William S Dancey
The Reinhardt Tract, owned by the City of Columbus, Department of Public Utilities, Water Division, is a 94 acre (~31.5 ha) area located in Harrison Township, Pickaway County, Ohio. A Certified Local Government (CLG) grant was awarded to the City of Columbus by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office (OHPO) in 2008 to conduct archaeological survey of the Tract. The survey and the interpreted results are intended to inform the City of the nature of these resources and their potential eligibility for listing to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). All land within the 94 acre tract was examined and evaluated with the exception of the inhabited farmstead adjacent U.S. Route 23. This report describes the results of the investigations on this property, including additional studies and preliminary and background work conducted in 2007. Previously identified sites within the Tract was a known Fort Ancient village (33 PI 880) and a recently discovered (2007) square earthen enclosure (33 PI 917). The CLG funded survey re-identified these two sites, and additionally identified a total of 11 newly discovered archaeological sites, including the Campbell Circle, an earthen circular enclosure (33 PI 1013). Ohio Archaeological Inventory (OAI) site forms were completed and submitted for all identified site locations. Revised Forms were submitted for the previously identified sites Reinhardt Village site (33 PI 880) and the Keith Peters Square (33 PI 917) and new forms were submitted for 33 PI 1012 through PI 1021. Of the 13 total identified sites, the two earthworks [the Keith Peters Square (33 PI 917) and the Campbell Circle (33 PI 1013)], and two habitation sites (33 PI 1014 and 1021) likely date to the Early and/or Middle Woodland period. The Reinhardt Village site (33 PI 880) dates to the Middle Fort Ancient period, and the remainder of sites are habitation sites or are sites of an unknown nature, spanning the Early Archaic through Late Woodland or are of unknown prehistoric temporal affiliation. Site 33 PI 1015 is a combined prehistoric and historic site with historic components dating to the 19th and 20th century. This property is near to and may have possible association with a carriage path (to become U.S. 23) and the Ohio Canal. Much of the Reinhardt Tract is a significant property with the potential to inform ongoing debates in Ohio Valley prehistory, including those of subsistence strategies and settlement patterning within the Early and Middle Woodland and Fort Ancient periods. All but two of the identified sites (33 PI 1016 and 1019) are considered to possess information potential to aid in local or regional questions in Ohio prehistory. 33 PI 880, 917, 1013, 1014, and 1021 will aid in questions of regional and local Ohio prehistory and are considered eligible for listing to the NRHP. Recovered information indicates 33 PI 1012, 1015, 1017 and 1018 have information potential to answer regional and local questions in prehistory and/or historic settlement (33 PI 1015) and are considered eligible with recommendations for additional study. Lack of remains and/or depositional integrity indicate that 33 PI 1016 and 1019 are considered not eligible for listing to the NRHP.
One River, One Nation: The Ohio River in an American Borderland, 1800-1850
Zachary M Bennett
Historical Archaeology
The Place Beyond the Fence: Slavery and Cultural Invention on a Delaware Tenant Farm
2020 •
Michael J Gall
The Place Beyond the Fence: Slavery and Cultural Invention on a Delaware Tenant Farm ABSTRACT Information about the lives and material culture of 18th-and early 19th-century enslaved African American laborers was recovered from Locus 1 of the Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric site (7NCF112) in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. This site contained the remains of multiple slave quarters and associated cultural features, evidence of which is rarely found in Delaware. Data from the site elucidate current understanding of slave life, housing, diet and cultural practices within a northern state situated in a transition area or cultural borderland between New England and the Tidewater regions. Locus 1 exhibited aspects of cultural traditions amongst enslaved communities in both regions as slaves in this upper Mid-Atlantic state coped with the stresses of slavery, while simultaneously selectively modifying and re-inventing their own practices and customs to define themselves culturally.
Carving Canaan from Egypt’s Land: Free People of Color in Kentucky’s Ohio River Valley, 1795-1860
2014 •
Brandon Wilson
Volume II. Living in Columbus, Georgia 1828-1869: The Lives of Creeks, Traders, Enslaved African-Americans, Mill Operatives and Others As Told to Archaeologists (Chapters 7-11 and Appendices)
Rita Elliott
This project involved the survey and testing of ten city blocks in Columbus, Georgia and the stripping and data recovery of 4.5 city lots by Southern Research Historic Preservation Consultants. Excavation included a mill worker tenement, the house site of wealthy and renowned Henry Benning, an African American enslaved quarters, households with Euro-Creek components, properties housing a rag dealer, and a variety of other site types. Archaeologists documented over 2,700 features, including 24 wells. Archaeologists conducted extensive historical research and public outreach. Fieldwork included geomorphological analysis and excavations of some prehistoric sites. Laboratory analyses included palynology, macrobotanical, phytolith, starch, faunal, and parasite studies, as well as extensive ceramic analyses and analyses of medical bottles and their recipes. Detailed interpretation at the city lot level enabled broader interpretations of socio-economic status, health and hygiene, consumerism, subsistence, gender, and ethnicity. The 2nd Avenue Revitalization Plan is an urban development of 54 acres within downtown Columbus, Georgia, in part for the construction of Total System Services campus, using a combination of Federal and State funding programs. This Volume II begins with Chapter 7 and contains the remainder of the report. Volume I contains Chapters 1-6.
Volume I. Living in Columbus, Georgia 1828-1869: The Lives of Creeks, Traders, Enslaved African-Americans, Mill Operatives and Others As Told to Archaeologists (Chapters 1-6)
Rita Elliott
This project involved the survey and testing of ten city blocks in Columbus, Georgia and the stripping and data recovery of 4.5 city lots by Southern Research Historic Preservation Consultants. Excavation included a mill worker tenement, the house site of wealthy and renowned Henry Benning, an African American enslaved quarters, households with Euro-Creek components, properties housing a rag dealer, and a variety of other site types. Archaeologists documented over 2,700 features, including 24 wells. Archaeologists conducted extensive historical research and public outreach. Fieldwork included geomorphological analysis and excavations of some prehistoric sites. Laboratory analyses included palynology, macrobotanical, phytolith, starch, faunal, and parasite studies, as well as extensive ceramic analyses and analyses of medical bottles and their recipes. Detailed interpretation at the city lot level enabled broader interpretations of socio-economic status, health and hygiene, consumerism, subsistence, gender, and ethnicity. The 2nd Avenue Revitalization Plan is an urban development of 54 acres within downtown Columbus, Georgia, in part for the construction of Total System Services campus, using a combination of Federal and State funding programs. This Volume I includes Chapters 1 through 6. Chapter 7 and the remainder of the report are located in Volume II (a separate file).
Rural African American Enslaved Life at the Rumsey Polk Tenant Prehistoric Site
Ilene Grossman-Bailey, Michael J Gall, Adam Heinrich
The Long Course of the River: Prehistoric Native Americans in the Upper Middle Ohio River Valley - A View from the West Blenerhassett and Godbey Field Sites, Wood County, West Virginia
Martin Fuess
