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The Chicora Foundation produces research series publications for archaeological and historical sites throughout the Southeastern United States.
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Publication Archaeological investigations at Mullet Hall Plantation, Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina(2017-05-30) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Chicora FoundationThis research explores the history and archaeology of a portion of what became known as Mullet Hall Plantation and includes five archaeological sites: 38CH1541, 38CH1542, 38CH1543, 38CH2242, and 38CH2244, situated on the southern shore of Johns Island, adjacent to Mullet Hall Creek. These investigations are the result of compliance studies that began in 1994 and represent an initial phase of development of what is today being called Kiawah River Plantation.Publication Data recovery at 38CH1220 : examination of a union camp on Kiawah Island, Charleston County, South Carolina(2015-04-29) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Hacker, DebiThis document provides information on data recovery excavations conducted by Chicora Foundation for Kiawah Partners of Charleston, SC at archaeological site 38CH1220, a Union Civil War encampment.Publication Archaeological investigations at Kendal Plantation on the lower Cape Fear River, Brunswick County, North Carolina(2016-09-23) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Chicora FoundationThis research explores the history and archaeology of Kendal Plantation in Brunswick County, North Carolina.Publication Son Cemetery : a bioanthropological investigation of a small Lexington County, South Carolina burial ground(2011-09-23) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Hacker, Debi; Southerland, NicoleFoundation personnel conducted excavations at the Son Cemetery in Lexington County, South Carolina. This cemetery was used by the Son family from the 1860s through 1976 and was thought to contain 11 Euro-American burials. However, one infant was not identified, one vaulted burial was removed by the Barr-Price Funeral Home; ultimately nine burials were removed from the cemetery. The investigations were conducted for Lexington County in order that the property could be available for industrial development.Publication Investigation of a St. Paul's Parish Plantation, Charleston County, South Carolina(2010-03-18) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Hacker, Debi; Poulos, Mari K.; Homes, S. HogueThis document reports on data recovery excavations conducted by Chicora Foundation for Special Properties of Charleston, SC at archaeological site 38CH2091, a late eighteenth century plantation complex,Publication Shoolbred's Old Settlement : excavations at 38CH123, Kiawah Island, Charleston County, South Carolina(2009-12-03) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Hacker, Debi; Poulos, Mari K.; Homes, S. HogueThis study reports on data recovery excavations at archaeological site 38CH123, a large plantation complex that dates from the earliest period of historic occupation on Kiawah Island through the early twentieth century. These excavations focused on portions of the settlement that represented the early eighteenth through mid-nineteenth century.Publication Data recovery at 38CH1693, a Small Thom's Creek site in Charleston County, South Carolina(2007-03-28) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Chicora FoundationThis document explores data recovery excavations conducted by Chicora Foundation for Carolina Park Associates, LLC at archaeological site 38CH1693, a small Thom's Creek site, under an existing Office of Ocean and Coastal Resources Management Memorandum of Agreement.Publication Data recovery at 38RD1249, 38RD1260, and 38RD1262 : tenancy in Richland County, South Carolina(2006-06-26) Chicora Foundation; Trinkley, Michael; Poppell, Julie; Southerland, Nicole; Hacker, DebiThis study provides the results of data recovery excavations at three late nineteenth and early twentieth domestic sites in upper Richland County, South Carolina.Publication The silence of the dead : giving Charleston cemeteries a voice(2010-04-28) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Southerland, Nicole; Hacker, DebiThis study has sought to identify the burial grounds of Charleston. Using historic documents, newspapers, maps, and plats we have located as many as possible, providing brief historical accounts. For most we have provided a street address, a parcel identification number (TMS), and UTM coordinates.Publication Tranquil Hill Plantation : the most charming inland place(2008-02-08) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Hacker, DebiThis study reports on data recovery excavations at archaeological site 38DR141, Tranquil Hill Plantation in Dorchester County, South Carolina.Publication Youghal : examination of an eighteenth and nineteenth century plantation, Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina(2006-01-21) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Poppell, Julie; Southerland, Nicole; Hacker, Debi; Fick, SarahThis study provides the results of data recovery excavations at Youghal (38CH932), the remains of an eighteenth and nineteenth century plantation and twentieth century dairy farm.Publication Investigation of an eighteenth century overseer site (38CH1278), Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina(2005-05-03) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Fick, Sarah; Chicora Foundation; Cummings, Linda ScottThis study provides the results of data recovery excavation at 38CH1278, the remains of an early eighteenth century plantation settlement attributed to an overseer. The site is situated on modern-day Belle Hall Plantation, north of US 17 and east of the Mark Clark Expressway in what historically has been known as Christ Church Parish.Publication Investigation of Jervey Plantation, Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina(2004-10-21) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Hacker, DebiThis study provides the results of data recovery excavations at 38CH927, the remains of a late eighteenth and early nineteenth century plantation settlement.Publication Liberty Hall : a small eighteenth century rice plantation in Goose Creek, Berkeley County, South Carolina(2001-11-22) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Fick, Sarah; Chicora FoundationThis study provides the results of data recovery excavations conducted at 38BK1900, a site identified as a Mazyck plantation on a tract of land today known as Liberty Hall Plantation. The investigations were conducted for Centex Homes and are meant to assist the company comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the regulations codified in 36CFR800.Publication Archaeological and historical investigations of Jehossee Island, Charleston County, South Carolina(2012-02-08) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Southerland, Nicole; Chicora FoundationThis study provides the results of a cultural resources reconnaissance of Jehossee Island. The primary goals of the Jehossee survey were to identify, record, and assess the significance of archaeological and architectural sites.Publication Archaeological investigations of Indian and slave at the Moses Whitesides Plantation, Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina(2016-07-19) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Chicora FoundationThis study provides the results of archaeological study at two sites situated northeast of Charleston between the Atlantic Ocean to the south and the Wando River to the north and northwest. The investigations were conducted as a result of a Memorandum of Agreement between Centex Homes, the State Historic Preservation Office, and the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management. This work is intended to help Centex Homes comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the regulations codified in 36CFR800.Publication A survey of Civil War fortifications in Charleston, Beaufort, Berkeley, Hampton, and Jasper counties, South Carolina(2007-02-12) Trinkley, Michael; Fick, Sarah; Chicora FoundationThis study reports on a survey of Civil War fortifications in Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Hampton, and Jasper counties, South Carolina. The research has resulted in the identification of 161 resources, several of which were combined, resulting in a total of 154 sites.Publication An archaeological examination of four family tombs at Colonial Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia(2013-03-08) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Chicora FoundationThis study is a second phase of research at Savannah's Colonial Cemetery, given the archaeological site number 9CH906. The cemetery, is best known today as Colonial Park. The research provides a wealth of information concerning the cemetery.Publication Archaeology at an eighteenth century slave settlement in Goose Creek, South Carolina(2003-12-23) Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi; Southerland, Nicole; Chicora FoundationThis study explores two different areas of the Crowfield Plantation - part of the main settlement (38BK103) and the slave settlement (38BK1011). Both were about to be impacted by development activities and this work was conducted to help preserve part of the unique history of this exceptional plantation.Publication Archaeology at the western portion of 38CH1257 and at 38CH1259 : a glimpse of Woodland and Civil War archaeology on Seabrook Island, Charleston County, South Carolina(2016-07-09) Trinkley, Michael; Chicora Foundation; Cohen, Arthur; Coyle, Suzanne; Rovner, IrwinThis report discusses excavations conducted at a portion of 38CH1257 and at 38CH1259 on Seabrook Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.