From Kaskaskia to Sangamo

Dispatches from Archaeological History of the Illinois Country 1600-1850

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The Garden by the Fort

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This post will begin to describe the results of our 2012 archaeological testing at the site of the 1732 Fort de Chartres, in Rand...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Back to Fort de Chartres part I

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One of several storms approaching. I have been lost in writing a sequel to the “At Home in the Illinois Country” book, this o...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Ethnicity in Antebellum St. Louis

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An Irish neighborhood in St. Louis, 1858.         In St. Louis, the neighborhoods straddling Biddle Street between 6 th and 12 th S...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Ancestor of Pepsi in Antebellum St. Louis

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As I've been working on a report on a massive collection of artifacts from a Irish neighborhood in St. Louis, dating to the 1840s and 18...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Importers' Marks from St. Louis

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Keeping on the St. Louis theme for a bit… I’m working on a study of pre-Civil War artifacts recovered during the 1990s from several do...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

A Forgotten Eighteenth Century House in St Louis?

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Speaking of archaeological features in St Louis ( see my last post ), here’s a remarkable structure that’s about to become archaeolog...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Aspects of Urban Archaeology

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I took this photo in an 1840s-1850s residential neighborhood in St. Louis. A house once stood here, torn down long ago. More recently...
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