Archaeological Sites of the Historic Period

Andersonville
The Southeast Archeological Center's website on the 1989-1990 excavations at the grim Civil War Prisoner-Of-War camp. All of the US National Park Service sites have been temporarily removed from the Internet.

Castle Hill
Noow Tlein, now called Castle Hill, was occupied ca. 1795 by the Kiks.ádi clan of the Tlingit; report of the 1997 excavations by the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology.

Dean Street Excavation
From Hartgen Archeological Associates of Rensselaer, NY, a really terrific web site on the historical documentation and archaeology of a historic neighborhood in Albany New York.

Five Points
Archaeological investigations in downtown Manhattan reveal that the infamous 19th century slum of Five Points was neither as frightening, nor as slum-like, as Dickens and others portrayed it.

The George Read House
University of Delaware, historic archaeological site, occupied from 1767-1824 near New Castle, Delaware.

Johnson's Island
A prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War was located on this island in Lake Erie; an online article from Archaeology magazine by Dave Bush, including some historical documents from the prisoners themselves.

Ninety-Six
In the Footsteps of "Light-horse Harry," research by the National Park Service at this 18th century village in South Carolina.

Old Government House
Paramatta, New South Wales, Australia, an historic archaeological investigation of the construction methods of a late 18th-early 19th century government building, by Robert Varman.

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
From the University of Virginia, a collection of searchable texts, including seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, and probate inventories pertaining to Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691.

PT109
John F. Kennedy's sunken PT boat from World War II, found and investigated by the indefatigable Bob Ballard. From National Geographic.