Exploring buried Buxton : archaeology of an abandoned Iowa coal mining town with a large black population / David M. Gradwohl & Nancy M. Osborn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gradwohl, David M., 1934-2022.

Contributor:

Osborn, Nancy M.

Series:

Bur Oak Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Iowa--Buxton--Antiquities.

African Americans.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Iowa--Buxton.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Buxton (Iowa)--Antiquities.

Buxton (Iowa).

Iowa--Antiquities.

Iowa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few sources before have dealt with the archaeology of African American settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states. This book describes in detail the archaeological investigations conducted at the town site of Buxton, Iowa, a coal mining community inhabited by a significantly large population of blacks between 1900 and 1925.

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; 2. Scope and Schedule of Archaeological Investigations; Initial Visit to the Buxton Townsite; Preliminary Field Investigations, 1980; Preliminary Laboratory Analysis, 1980-1981; Planning the Internship Program; The 1981 Field Season; Continuing Laboratory Work, 1981-1982; 3: Buxton's Setting: Geography, Economic Geology, and Town Planning; 4: Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Townsite; Reconnaissance Unit B; Reconnaissance Unit KC; Reconnaissance Unit J; Reconnaissance Unit C; Carlson Property; Reconnaissance Unit KP

Buxton Cemetery; Harris Property; 5. Test Excavations and Investigation of Former Buildings; Excavation Methods and Procedures; The Stone Warehouse (Structure 1); The Company Store (Structure 2); The Company Office (Structure 3); The Main YMCA (Structure 4); The Boys' YMCA (Structure 5); Evidence for the Street Fronting the YMCA; The White House Hotel (Structure 6); A Residence and Outbuildings (The Structure 7-10 Complex); Residential Building (Structure 11); Surface Indications of Unidentified Buildings (Structures 12-16); The Power Plant (Structure 17)

Possible Remains of Armstrong's Meat Market (Structure 18); Possible Ruins of the Telegraph Office (Structure 19); Concrete Viaduct and Steel Culvert (Structures 20 and 21); The Mine Superintendent's House (Structures 22-24); The Superintendent's Outbuildings (Structural Complex 25); The Sewer Pipe (Structure 26); Excavations at the South End of Site Survey Unit KP-3; 6. Portable Artifacts from the Townsite; Ceramic Artifacts; Glass Artifacts; Metal Artifacts; Celluloid Artifacts; Rubber Artifacts; Shell Artifacts; Bone Artifacts; Leather and Hair Artifacts; Textile Artifacts; Paper Artifacts

Stone Artifacts; Artifacts of Miscellaneous Media; Artifacts of Composite Materials; Plant Remains; Animal Remains; 7. Social and Cultural Patterns from an Archaeological Perspective; Making It: The Business, Commercial, and Occupational Enterprise; Home, Home by the Range: The Distaff and Domestic Domains; Getting Around: Transportation, Utilities, and Facilities; Having Fun: Recreation and Relaxation; Praying and Passing: Religious and Mortuary Patterns; 8. Buxton in Retrospect and Prospect; Archaeological Extent and Quality of the Townsite; Buxton's Relationship to National Trade Networks

Regional and National Significance of Buxton; Buxton's Settlement Pattern; Ethnicity in Buxton; What about Buxton as Utopia?; References Cited; Interviews; Index; Untitled

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587296659

1587296659

OCLC:

607670344