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Preliminary Archaeological Investigations Of Part Of The San Pedro Acequia, San Antonio, Texas, Fred Valdez Jr., Jack D. Eaton

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

In April 1979, Mr. R. W. Miller, Director of Construction Management, General Services Administration (GSA), contacted the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, to request archaeological investigations of GSA property located south of the Old U.S. Arsenal, between South Flores Street and South Main Avenue in downtown San Antonio. The investigations would be conducted to determine if the Spanish Colonial San Pedro Acequia (not to be confused with San Pedro Creek nearby) ran through the property as indicated on old maps; and if so, to locate it and describe its construction and condition. This information …

Archaeological And Historical Investigations At 41bx180, Walker Ranch, San Antonio, Texas: Phase I, Anne A. Fox

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

In May 1979, the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, conducted preliminary investigations at site 41BX180, a group of historic limestone ruins located on the Walker Ranch in northern Bexar County, Texas. A history of ownership of Walker Ranch is included. Archaeological investigations of three structures and associated artifacts are described. An appendix discusses the faunal material from the site.

An Intensive Archaeological Survey Of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area Llano And Gillespie Counties, Texas, Cristi Assad, Daniel R. Potter

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

During February through April 1979, the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, carried out an intensive archaeological survey at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Llano and Gillespie Counties, Texas. A summary of the 120 newly recorded sites is presented, along with more detailed information on shovel testing, auger testing and two excavated sites. Data from faunal and constant volume analyses at the excavated sites are described and tabulated. Appendices include documentation of a local collection, an artifact inventory from an earlier survey, and an analysis of phytoliths from one of the excavated sites.

Historical, Architectural And Archaeological Investigations At The Steiner-Schob Complex Victoria County, Texas, Anne A. Fox, Katherine Livingston

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

In May 1977, the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and the firm of Eugene George, AIA Architect, carried out an intensive investigation and recording of a German farmstead in Victoria County, Texas. A detailed history of the family and the site and a complete architectural recording and analysis are included. Archaeological investigations of standing structures and sites of former structures are described. The results of the investigations are discussed in relation to archaeological investigations at other rural sites. Appendices on phosphate testing and detailed architectural drawings of the Schob house are included.

Crossroad Of Empire: The Church And State On The Rio Grande Frontier Of Coahuila And Texas 1700-1821, Felix D. Almaraz Jr.

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The monograph being published here is the first in a series of data-oriented reports derived from the archaeological and ethnohistorical project centered on the modern town of Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico. To our gratification, the project produced a great deal of information. We have decided to meet the problem of adequate publication of the results in two ways. The first is by a volume of essays which aim at synthesizing the various aspects of the data and drawing conclusions from it. This single volume will be published elsewhere and is now (1979) in preparation. The other means of publication is by …

The Lithic Artifacts Of Indians At The Spanish Colonial Missions, San Antonio, Texas, Daniel E. Fox

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The purpose of this study is to define and morphologically describe an assemblage of lithic cultural material thought to be representative of a group of Spanish Colonial mission sites in Texas.

Ethnohistoric Notes On Indian Groups Associated With Three Spanish Missions At Guerrero, Coahuila, T. N. Campbell

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Three Spantsh missions, San Francisco Solano, San Juan Bautista and San Bernardo, were established near the Rio Grande at present Guerrero, northeastern Coahuila, during the years 1700-1703. Remnants of at least 88 distinctively named Indian groups at various times came to live at one or more of these missions. In 1975- 1976, the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas San Antonio, supported by funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Kathryn O'Connor Foundation, conducted archaeological excavations at two of these missions, San Juan Bautista and San Bernardo. Since the cultural debris recovered from excavations is …

Record Of Deaths - Book I 1915-1979, Ca. 1979, Bethlehem United Church Of Christ (Tenth Legion, Va.)

Series 1 - Administrative Records, 1844-1979

First volume of record book created between 1915 and 1979 by Rena Thomas Foltz that documents death information for members of the church.

Franco-American Album, 1979 (Scrapbook #6), Franco-American Collection

Scrapbooks

Newspaper clippings with photographs of politics, schools, church, wedding anniversaries, obituaries and social events etc., in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine and Canada from 1979.

Record Of Deaths - Book Ii 1915-1979, Ca. 1979, Bethlehem United Church Of Christ (Tenth Legion, Va.)

Series 1 - Administrative Records, 1844-1979

Second volume of record book created between 1915 and 1979 by Rena Thomas Foltz that documents death information for members of the church.

White County Heritage 1979, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Notes and Comments by Editor
History of Rose Bud, Arkansas (collected by Mrs. J.S. Gifford)
Humphrey Posey Mason by Dale Thomas
Beebe Railroad Station by W.S. Gordon
Sunny Hill by Sara Davis
Cattle Dipping for the Tick Menace by Eloise Scott
Surplus Cotton to Comfortable Mattresses by Elouise Scott
Cotton Comforters for Cold Nights by Elouise Scott
Community Canning Kitchens by Elouise Scott
Sons of Confederate Veterans (news - collected by Ruth Chaney)
Action at Ashley's Mill by Maj. Cal. Collier
Action at Ashley's Mill 1978 by Ruth Chaney
Union & Confederate Capsule Regimental Histories by Adv. …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 2, Nancy K. Wierman, Joyce Demcher Moran, Louis Winkler, Alvin F. Kemp, Judith E. Fryer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Pennsylvania Dutchman
• Miz Ukraini: "We are From the Ukraine"
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XVII: German Language Almanacs
• Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect Stories
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters, Part II
• Aldes un Neies

12/22/1978 Birthday Note, Sumner T. Bernstein

Rosalyne S. Bernstein Correspondence

For more information on the Rosalyne S. Bernstein Papers, please visit the finding aid HERE

Brief note from Sumner T. Bernstein to Rosalyne S. Bernstein on the occasion of her 50th birthday.

White County Heritage 1978 No. 4, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

News and Notes
White County Citizen, June 11, 1913 (reprint)
The Faulkner Family of White County, Arkansas by LTC L.M. Crook, Jr.
Who Remembers Clay Fulks? by Claude Johnson
Cullum Cemetery by Jane Goodwin

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 1, Martha B. Kriebel, William T. Parsons, Phyllis Vibbard Parsons, Antje Sommer, Judith E. Fryer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Women, Servants and Family Life in Early America
• "Be it Remembered that these Indentured Servants and Apprentices"
• Gute Socha fer Hame tzu Nemma
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters
• Aldes / Neies

An Address By Professor C.W. Bennett, Read At The Dedication Of The New Library At Syracuse University, Charles W. Bennett

The Courier

This article is adapted from an address written by Charles W. Bennett for the dedication of the Leopold von Ranke Library at Syracuse University in 1889. The address was delivered posthumously at the dedication. Bennett's address details the immeasurable contributions of Leopold von Ranke in the field of History, who developed the modern academic field of History in Berlin in the nineteenth century. The von Ranke collection can today be found at Syracuse University.

White County Heritage 1978 No. 3, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

News of This and That by Mrs. L.E. Presley
Searcy Bank (reprint)
First National Bank Opens (copied)
1900 Census Available by R.P. Baker
White Countian Member of the Holland Society
Arkansas Historical Commission Biographical Memoranda of John Austin Pangburn
White County Historical Meeting - Confederate Program by Ruth Chaney
WCHS Visits Morris Home by Ina Leach
Letter (Annual Convention Western History Association) - University of Arkansas
Searcy Baptist Church (reprint)
Arkansas Genealogical Society

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 4, Don Yoder, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Mark Workman, George A. Boeck, Jo Ann Early

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Dialect Church Service in the Pennsylvania German Culture
• Witchcraft Belief in a Pennsylvania German Family
• German Settlement of Northern Chester County in the 18th Century
• Medical Practice in Philadelphia at the Time of the Yellow Fever Epidemic, 1793
• Folkloric Aspects of the Common Law in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1799
• Runaway Advertisements: A Source for the Study of Working-Class Costume

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement, Richard Shaner, Tom Ahern, Theodore W. Jentsch, Mary E. Sise, Robert W. Murphy, John E. Stinsmen, Barry Mcfarland, Paul E. Forster, Anne E. Denney, Kristen R. Angstadt, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Hex Signs: A Living Tradition
• Decoys and How to Make Them
• Kutztown's Plain People
• The Old Country Kitchen: Where Food Preparation was an Art
• Wooden Toys, Games and Puzzles: The Delight of All Children
• A Sketch of the Seminar Stage Programs
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Furniture-Makers at the Kutztown Festival
• The Muzzle-Loading Gunsmith
• Those Rare Things Called "Antiques!"
• Mouth-Watering Baked Goods, Fresh From the Ovens!
• The Art of the Potter

In Commemoration Of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : A Guide - Bibliography, Maine State Archives

Maine Collection

In Commemoration of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : A Guide - Bibliography

Compiled and Edited by Barrett Parker, Pejepscot Historical Society and Sylvia J. Sherman, Maine State Archives.

"Published under Appropriation No. 1065.1".

Maine State Archives, Augusta, Maine (May 1, 1978).

Contents: Introduction / Preface / Part I. Publications / Part II. Manuscripts / Appendix

Appendix consists of a "Facsimile of Report of Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain, 20th Maine Volunteers to Headquarters, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac Concerning the Actions of the 20th Maine at Gettysburg, July 6, 1863."

White County Heritage 1978 No. 2, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Again We Plead by Ina Leach
Jim Wiseman by Esther Smith
Politics 1872
White County Heritage Museum by Mrs. L.E. Presley
Pleasant Grove Cemetery by Jane Gassaway
Rare and Out-of-Print Books Reprinted by Mrs. L.E.Presley
County Records Filmed by Mrs. L.E. Presley

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 3, Don Yoder, Katherine Ann Jarrett, Janet Theophano, Louis Winkler

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Spiritual Lineage of Shakerism
• Pennsylvania in the Romantic Age of Tourism
• Neighborhood Influence on Mailbox Style
• Feast, Fast, and Time
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XVI: The Gruber-Baer Era
• Advertisements of Urban Healers
• Views of Harrisburg

Initial Testing Report And Recommendations For Archeological Resources Along Proposed R.M. 337, Bandera County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Ten archeological sites in Bandera County, Texas, will be affected by the completion of R.M. 337, a proposed 10.2-mile extension connecting the existing R.M. 337 (formerly F.M. 1336) with R.M.187 south of Vanderpool. These sites were discovered in February, 1978, during an archeological reconnaissance of the right-of-way by Frank Weir and Daymond Crawford of the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation and Robert Mallouf and John Clark of the Texas Historical Commission. Be- 'tween February 22 and March 21, 1978, preliminary sub-surface testing and/or surface collecting of the sites was conducted by Jerry Henderson and Daymond Crawford of the …

Initial Testing Report And Recommendations For Archeological Resources Along Proposed F.M. 3359, Panola County, Texas, Patience Elizabeth Patterson

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The archeological testing at sites 41PN3 and 41PN4 reported herein, came about as ,ill result of discovery of these sites during an archeological reconnaissance of the proposed right of way on F.M. 3359 near Deadwood in Panola County, Texas (Figure 1). Reporting and preliminary testing of these sites was completed so as to be i.n compliance with Public Law 89-670(The Department of Transportation Act of 1966), 36 CFR 60, 36 CFR 8·00, and the Memorandum of Understanding between the State. Department of Highways and Public Transportation and the Texas Antiquities Committee, dated January 5, 1972.

Both sites were discovered by …

Initial Testing Report For 41lr58

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

During a routine archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed right- of-way of F.M. 3298 a site was indicated between centerline stations 143 + 00 and 145 + 00 on the basis of the recovery of a dart point and a dart point fragment. Consequently, a preliminary test was conducted during the week beginning May 1, 1978, to determine the nature of the site and to formulate, if necessary, a program of excavation and mitigation . The discovery and preliminary test investigations were made i n accordance with Title 36, C.F.R., Part 800 Procedures for the Protection of Historic and Cultural Properties.

An Inventory And Assessment Of Archaeological Sites In The High Country Of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, Paul R. Katz

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This report will present the results of an archaeological survey conducted in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, during the summer of 1976. The specific purpose of this survey was to compile an inventory of prehistoric resources in that portion of the Park known as the High Country, the only portion of the Park which had not yet been subjected to a comprehensive, on-the-ground archaeological reconnaissance. Data gathered during the survey were analyzed and interpreted in the light of existing cultural frameworks for the Park and surrounding region. Criteria of significance and criteria of effect were applied to all documented archaeological …

Archaeological Investigations Of Portions Of The San Pedro And Alazan Acequias In San Antonio, Texas, Anne A. Fox

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

In the spring of 1977 the Center for Archaeological Research was requested by Ronald Darner, Director of the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department, to investigate and record sections of the old acequias, or irrigation ditches which were involved in renovation and landscaping projects in city parks. The purpose of this report is to present the information gained in this endeavor ln lasting and usable form for the future benefit of historians and archaeologists working with these unique and interesting structures.

Since time and space did not allow an exhaustive discussion of the acequia system of San Antonio, the reader …

Archaeological Monitoring And Testing At The Catalpa-Pershing Storm Drainage Project In San Antonio, Texas, Anne A. Fox, Elizabeth C. Frkuska

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

In Feburary 1977, the Center for Archaeological Research was contracted by the City of San Antonio Department of Parks and Recreation to conduct observation and limited testing in the immediate area of the Catalpa-Pershing Drainage Project in Brackenridge Park. The affected area within the park had previously been surveyed for archaeological sites by Center personnel in connection with a general historic and prehistoric survey of the park as a whole (Fox and Katz 1978) in preparation for the proposed Master Plan. During the initial survey, one historic site and two prehistoric sites were recorded in the area through which the …

An Evaluation Of Archaeological Sites In The Vicinity Of Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 2 Dry Comal Creek, Comal County, Texas, Cristi Assad

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

During September and October of 1977, 10 days of limited testing and survey were carried out by personnel from the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR), The University of Texas at San Antonio, under the supervision of Dr. Thomas R. Hester. The work was conducted under the terms of Purchase Order No. 40-7442-1501 issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Soil Conservation Service (SCS). The sites tested were in the area to be modified by the construction of Floodwater Retarding Structure No.2 located on Dry Comal Creek in Comal County, south central Texas (Fig. 1). The testing was the …

Archaeological Testing In An Area South Of Olmos Dam, San Antonio, Texas, Cristi A. Assad

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

During November of 1977, five days of archaeological testing were carried out by personnel from the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, directly south of Olmos Dam, San Antonio, Texas (see Fig. 1). The testing was done under the supervision of Dr. Thomas R. Hester, Director, and Jack D. Eaton, Assistant Director, and was performed under the terms of a contract between CAR and the San Antonio River Authority. The project conforms to the provisions outlined in the E.D.A. Special Terms and Conditions (III 3a), Grant Number 08-19-01911. Antiquities Permit #161 was obtained from the …