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Finding The Foundation : Exploring A Historic Stockade Property In Schenectady, New York, Hanna Marie Pageau Jan 2018

Finding The Foundation : Exploring A Historic Stockade Property In Schenectady, New York, Hanna Marie Pageau

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Schenectady County Community College Community Archaeology Program researchers have been excavating in the Stockade Historic District, an area dating back to the Dutch colonization period. Sites located on the current property of the First Reformed Church of Schenectady, located within the district, include a house razed in 1938, but which appears according to existing deed records, to have originally been built in the late 1700s. Two primary finds have come from the excavation, including the presence of two different strata with significant amounts of burnt debris that is believed to represent the most significant fires on the property (1861/1948). In …


The Voyage Of Refinement : The Many Talents Of Thomas Cole, Anthony Edwin Anadio Jan 2013

The Voyage Of Refinement : The Many Talents Of Thomas Cole, Anthony Edwin Anadio

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

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Life At The Watervliet Shaker Village : An Archaeological And Historical Approach, Joseph John Grygas Jan 2011

Life At The Watervliet Shaker Village : An Archaeological And Historical Approach, Joseph John Grygas

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

To date Shaker archaeology is currently in a relatively primitive stage. Most investigation at Shaker sites has resulted from construction projects and these surveys say very little about Shaker life. It was not until David Starbuck's 2004 "Neither Plain Nor Simple: New Perspectives on the Canterbury Shakers" did a major interpretive work on the Shaker's appear. An opportunity arose to work with the Shaker Heritage Society at Watervliet to do a limited survey at a Dwelling House site. This opportunity was used to test Starbuck's conclusions at another Shaker village. The findings reveal that the Shakers were indeed not strictly …