itmaiden
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Hi All,
Thought it would give us all greater insight to examine more closely what the state you are in has "acquired".
So if your state has "state parks", "preserves", Esturaries, or some similar acquisition and you feel it is really because there is an archaeological or historical site there, then please list what you factually have. Please provide appropriate links to your information if possible.
I am going to start this out by listing some information from the NE Florida area. I started with Washington Gardens State Park, but found there were a number of sites under an umbrella area for the state which are connected. So here is some data to start with:
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park (Note: this is a government document)
[[url]http://www.nerrs.noaa.gov/Doc/PDF/Reserve/GTM_SiteProfile.pdf
/url]
Fort Matanzas National Monument is managed and protected by the US National Park Service. The original national monument site consisted of only the fort on Rattlesnake Island, northwest of the Matanzas Inlet. Through the years, however, the National Park Service has been able to acquire additional land both on Rattlesnake and Anastasia Island and begin to set aside a slice of an intact barrier island ecosystem.
[Now I want to make a comment here regarding Rattlesnake Island. The State of Florida was considering using it for "development" and sent a state archie out there, who claimed he did not find any archaeological/or historical evidence at all by surface search or post hole examinations. Yet, in this document, it states that the original Fort Matanzas was a wooden structure on this Island...a contradiction with the archie]
The GTMNERR region is of special sociological and archeological interest because of the comprehensive documentary record of human settlement and landscape modifications.
There are detailed records commencing in the mid-sixteenth century of Native American, Spanish, French, British and American inhabitants and their cultures.
A total of 22 recorded archaeological sites occur within the boundaries of the area directly managed by the Reserve. Known sites include a burial mound, numerous shell middens, a Spanish mission (probably La Natividad de Nuestra Senora de Tolomato), and homestead sites from the British, Second Spanish and Territorial Periods (Newman 1995).
Other areas of exceptional historical significance within the GTMNERR include
• Faver-Dykes State Park has five identified sites with artifacts from the full range of cultural periods: Orange, St. Johns, Saint Augustine and Second Spanish from the Hepworth Carter Plantation site.
• Washington Oaks Gardens State Park has several nineteenth and early twentieth century sites associated with the Bella Vista Plantation, as well as sites associated with the ornamental gardens dating from the late 1930s--1950s. In addition the area has several middens in fair to good condition.
• Princess Place Preserve has Florida’s oldest commercial orange groves planted in the early 1800’s. The land is part of the original land grant from the Spanish Government in the late 1700’s; it may be the only contiguous land grant remaining from that time period. The site contains one of Florida’s first in-ground swimming pools.
• Matanzas Inlet, at Fort Matanzas National Monument, was the scene of crucial events in Spanish colonial history. The defeat of French soldiers here in 1565 initiated Spain’s establishment of its first permanent colony in Florida. The construction of Fort Matanzas in 1740-42 was Spain’s attempt to stop British encroachments on St. Augustine (Smith 2006).
Underwater archeological resources in the GTMNERR are lesser known. A systematic maritime archaeological survey in St. Augustine waters was conducted by Southern Oceans Archaeological Research, Inc between 1994 and 1997, and focused on locating offshore shipwrecks surrounding St. Augustine's inlet (Franklin and Morris 1996). The most significant discovery of this survey was the shipwreck Industry, a British supply ship lost May 6, 1764. This wreck remains the oldest yet located in St. Augustine's waters (Morris et al. 1998). The St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum began funding maritime archaeology in St. Johns County, in 1997, and in 1999, established the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program, or LAMP. In both 2007 and 2009 the GTMNERR co-sponsored, along with LAMP, the Annual Northeast Florida Symposium on Underwater Maritime Archaeology, a symposium on underwater archaeology to bring together experts in this field and to promote collaboration on future research and educational initiatives within the Reserve.
National Estuarine
itmaiden
Thought it would give us all greater insight to examine more closely what the state you are in has "acquired".
So if your state has "state parks", "preserves", Esturaries, or some similar acquisition and you feel it is really because there is an archaeological or historical site there, then please list what you factually have. Please provide appropriate links to your information if possible.
I am going to start this out by listing some information from the NE Florida area. I started with Washington Gardens State Park, but found there were a number of sites under an umbrella area for the state which are connected. So here is some data to start with:
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park (Note: this is a government document)
[[url]http://www.nerrs.noaa.gov/Doc/PDF/Reserve/GTM_SiteProfile.pdf
/url]
Fort Matanzas National Monument is managed and protected by the US National Park Service. The original national monument site consisted of only the fort on Rattlesnake Island, northwest of the Matanzas Inlet. Through the years, however, the National Park Service has been able to acquire additional land both on Rattlesnake and Anastasia Island and begin to set aside a slice of an intact barrier island ecosystem.
[Now I want to make a comment here regarding Rattlesnake Island. The State of Florida was considering using it for "development" and sent a state archie out there, who claimed he did not find any archaeological/or historical evidence at all by surface search or post hole examinations. Yet, in this document, it states that the original Fort Matanzas was a wooden structure on this Island...a contradiction with the archie]
The GTMNERR region is of special sociological and archeological interest because of the comprehensive documentary record of human settlement and landscape modifications.
There are detailed records commencing in the mid-sixteenth century of Native American, Spanish, French, British and American inhabitants and their cultures.
A total of 22 recorded archaeological sites occur within the boundaries of the area directly managed by the Reserve. Known sites include a burial mound, numerous shell middens, a Spanish mission (probably La Natividad de Nuestra Senora de Tolomato), and homestead sites from the British, Second Spanish and Territorial Periods (Newman 1995).
Other areas of exceptional historical significance within the GTMNERR include
• Faver-Dykes State Park has five identified sites with artifacts from the full range of cultural periods: Orange, St. Johns, Saint Augustine and Second Spanish from the Hepworth Carter Plantation site.
• Washington Oaks Gardens State Park has several nineteenth and early twentieth century sites associated with the Bella Vista Plantation, as well as sites associated with the ornamental gardens dating from the late 1930s--1950s. In addition the area has several middens in fair to good condition.
• Princess Place Preserve has Florida’s oldest commercial orange groves planted in the early 1800’s. The land is part of the original land grant from the Spanish Government in the late 1700’s; it may be the only contiguous land grant remaining from that time period. The site contains one of Florida’s first in-ground swimming pools.
• Matanzas Inlet, at Fort Matanzas National Monument, was the scene of crucial events in Spanish colonial history. The defeat of French soldiers here in 1565 initiated Spain’s establishment of its first permanent colony in Florida. The construction of Fort Matanzas in 1740-42 was Spain’s attempt to stop British encroachments on St. Augustine (Smith 2006).
Underwater archeological resources in the GTMNERR are lesser known. A systematic maritime archaeological survey in St. Augustine waters was conducted by Southern Oceans Archaeological Research, Inc between 1994 and 1997, and focused on locating offshore shipwrecks surrounding St. Augustine's inlet (Franklin and Morris 1996). The most significant discovery of this survey was the shipwreck Industry, a British supply ship lost May 6, 1764. This wreck remains the oldest yet located in St. Augustine's waters (Morris et al. 1998). The St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum began funding maritime archaeology in St. Johns County, in 1997, and in 1999, established the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program, or LAMP. In both 2007 and 2009 the GTMNERR co-sponsored, along with LAMP, the Annual Northeast Florida Symposium on Underwater Maritime Archaeology, a symposium on underwater archaeology to bring together experts in this field and to promote collaboration on future research and educational initiatives within the Reserve.
National Estuarine
itmaiden
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