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"The Best Ever Occupied...": Archaeological Investigations Of A Civil War Encampment On Folly Island, South Carolina, James B. Legg, Steven D. Smith
"The Best Ever Occupied...": Archaeological Investigations Of A Civil War Encampment On Folly Island, South Carolina, James B. Legg, Steven D. Smith
Steven D. Smith
In May of 1987, the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology was informed that human remains were being unearthed by road construction in a private residential development on Folly Island, South Carolina. This information led to a two year investigation of the 1863 winter camp of the Federal Army, used during its siege of Charleston. During the investigations a black military cemetery was salvaged (site 38CH920), and three areas of the Federal camp were examined as part of a data recovery project, and a later research effort (sites 38CH964, 38CH965, 38CH966). All of the sites were recommended as eligible …
Acquiring The Past For The Future: The South Carolina Heritage Trust Statewide Assessment Of Cultural Sites, Christopher Judge, Steven Smith
Acquiring The Past For The Future: The South Carolina Heritage Trust Statewide Assessment Of Cultural Sites, Christopher Judge, Steven Smith
Steven D. Smith
The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology received a grant from the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History to conduct a statewide assessment of the cultural resources of the state. This report details the results of this one-year study to establish a representative sample of the archaeological and historical resources of the state of South Carolina, to be used by the South Carolina Heritage Trust as a planning tool for the possible acquisition of such sites as Heritage Preserves. A list of the 100 most "Critically Significant" sites and …
Initial Archeological Investigations At Silver Bluff Plantation Aiken County, South Carolina, James Scurry, J. Joseph, Fritz Hamer
Initial Archeological Investigations At Silver Bluff Plantation Aiken County, South Carolina, James Scurry, J. Joseph, Fritz Hamer
Fritz Hamer
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