Download or read book Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed Carrollton Revetment Project Orleans Parish Louisiana Phase 1 Volume 1 of 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents the results of an investigation by R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., between Aug 11 and Sep 2, 2003, for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District. The proposed project area is located along the east-descending bank of the Mississippi River between River Mile 101.6 and 102.5 in Orleans Parish, LA. The terrestrial portion of the proposed Area of Potential Effect encompassed an area that measured approximately 1.56 ha (3.86 ac) of land, while the submerged portion of the study area encompassed 11.1 ha (27.44 ac) in size. This undertaking incorporated in-depth historical research of the proposed project area and its surroundings; a detailed review of previously collected underwater remote sensing data provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District; and a Phase I cultural resources survey and archeological inventory of the terrestrial portion of the proposed Area of Potential Effect. All fieldwork was performed in accordance with federal and state guidelines and regulations. During the current investigation, Site I 6ORl 90 (Shipwreck #2), the submerged remains of the Eads-designed gunboat Chickasaw, and Site l6ORl99 (Shipwreck# 11), the remains of the catamaran river ferry A.M. Halliday, were found to potentially possess qualities of significance by National Register criteria. Because current project plans call for the emplacement of stone around and immediately adjacent to these two vessels, the proposed undertaking will serve to stabilize the vessels in place, beneficial to long term preservation. No intact archaeological sites were found on the terrestrial portion of the project area and no additional testing is recommended in the area.
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed Carrollton Revetment Project Orleans Parish Louisiana Volume II of II written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed Carrollton Revetment Project Orleans Parish Louisiana written by Kari Krause and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed Carrollton Revetment Project Orleans Parish Louisiana Natural setting Project area location Physiography Geomorphology Geology Paleogeography Depositional environments Natural riverine processes Soils Fauna and flora Climate Archeological implications written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Down on the Batture written by Oliver A. Houck and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lower Mississippi River winds past the city of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called “the batture.” On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity unique to the region—ramblers, artists, drinkers, fishers, rabbit hunters, dog walkers, sunset watchers, and refugees from immigration, alimony, and other aspects of modern life. Author Oliver A. Houck has frequented this place for the past twenty-five years. Down on the Batture describes a life, pastoral, at times marginal, but remarkably fecund and surprising. From this place he meditates on Louisiana, the state of the waterway, and its larger environs. He describes all the actors who have played lead roles on the edge of the mightiest river of the continent, and includes in his narrative plantations, pollution, murder, land grabs, keelboat brawlers, slave rebellions, the Corps of Engineers, and the oil industry. Houck draws from his experience in New Orleans since the early 1970s in the practice and teaching of law. He has been a player in many of the issues he describes, although he does not undertake to argue them here. Instead, story by story, he uses the batture to explore the forces that have shaped and spell out the future of the region. The picture emerges of a place that—for all its tangle of undergrowth, drifting humanity, shifting dimensions in the rise and fall of floodwater—provides respite and sanctuary for values that are original to America and ever at risk from the homogenizing forces of civilization.
Download or read book They Called Us River Rats written by Macon Fry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Vernacular Watercraft written by Amanda M. Evans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents multiple idiographic, archaeological studies of vernacular watercraft from North America and the Caribbean. Rather than attempt to synthesize all vernacular types, this volume focuses on ship construction data recovered through archaeological investigations that has been used to make inferences about culture. This collection of case studies, including many examples from cultural resource management and graduate student theses, presents a thematic exploration of cultural adaptation as expressed through ship construction.
Download or read book Cultural Resource Survey of Carrollton Bend Revetment Mississippi River M 105 7 to 101 7 L Jefferson and Orleans Parishes Louisiana written by Stephen Hinks and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed 19 3 KM 12MI Long Stretch of Bayou Teche Iberia Parish Louisiana written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents the results of Phase I cultural resources survey and archeological inventory of the proposed Bayou Teche project area in Iberia Parish Louisiana. This investigation included the excavation of a 19.3 km (12 miles) long stretch of the Bayou Teche channel as well as six terrestrial project items and two proposed access roads. The six terrestrial project items consisted of three proposed staging areas (Staging Areas 1 - 3) nom which dredging operations will be coordinated and three proposed disposal areas (Disposal Areas 1 - 3) that will receive spoil dredged from the river bottom. The terrestrial project items surveyed comprised a total of 41.32 ha (102.1 ac). Fieldwork for this project was completed during January of 2000 on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. New Orleans District by R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates. Inc. pursuant to Contract DACW29-97-D-00l8. Delivery Order 24.
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed Vermilion River Dredge Disposal Project Area Lafayette Parish Louisiana written by R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of a Proposed 1 12 Ha 2 87 Ac Borrow Pit and an Associated Access Road Ascension Parish Louisiana written by Catherine Labadia and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the 4 94 Ha 12 21 Ac Keystone Lock and Dam Project Parcel St Martin Parish Louisiana written by William P. Athens and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed Schooner Bayou Project Corridor in Vermilion Parish Louisiana written by Catherine Labadia and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed Vermilion River Dredge Disposal Project Area Lafayette Parish Louisiana written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents the results of the Phase I cultural resources survey and archeological inventory of the Vermilion River Dredge Disposal Project Area in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. The study area consisted of a 372-acre tract of land located along the Vermilion River approximately 0.75 miles east of the town of Lafayette. Cultural survey and inventory of the study area resulted in the identification of two non-site cultural resources loci (VRD-1A-O1 and VRD-1D-O2) and a single newly recorded archeological site (16LY116). In addition, the locations of two previously recorded sites (16LY24 and 16LY50) were revisited. The two non-site cultural resources loci consisted of an isolated prehistoric ceramic shard (VRD-1A-01) and an isolated historic artifact (VRD-1D-02). The single newly recorded archeological site was characterized in the field as an historic artifact scatter with an associated historic structure. Each of the newly identified cultural resources loci and site 16LY116 produced sparse artifact assemblages and the loci lacked both intact cultural deposits and research potential. Therefore, locus VRD-1A-01, locus VRD-1D-02, and site 16LY116 do not possess the qualities of significance as defined by the National Register of Historic Places criteria for evaluation. No additional testing of these non-site loci and newly recorded archeological site is recommended. Of the site locations that were revisited, site 16LY24 previously was described as a multi-component site that contained both prehistoric and historic components, while site 16LY50 consisted of a prehistoric period cultural resource. Intensive pedestrian survey, shovel testing, auger testing, and backhoe trenching were conducted throughout the areas associated with these sites. Because no evidence of intact cultural deposits or research potential was identified at either site, no additional testing of sites 16LY24 and 16LY5O is recommended. (21 tables, 62 figures, extensive bibliography).
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of a Proposed Temporary Housing Area Plaquemines Parish Louisiana written by Brandi Carrier Jones and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Archeological Survey and Cultural Resources Inventory of 30 Parks in New Orleans Orleans Parish Louisiana written by Sean Coughlin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed 19 3 Km 12 Mi Long Stretch of Bayou Teche Iberia Parish Louisiana written by David R. George and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
