Author: Stephanie L. PerraultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Cultural Resources Survey, Testing, and Exploratory Trenching for the Louisiana State Penitentiary Levee Enlargement Project, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Author: Stephanie L. PerraultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Beyond Control
Author: James F. Barnett Jr.Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149681116X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country’s largest river would bear national significance as well as disastrous consequences for New Orleans and towns like Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River. Since 1973, the US Army Corps of Engineers Control Complex at Old River has kept the Mississippi from jumping out of its historic channel and plunging through the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Beyond Control traces the history of this phenomenon, beginning with a major channel shift around 3,000 years ago. By the time European colonists began to explore the Lower Mississippi Valley, a unique confluence of waterways had formed where the Red River joined the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River flowed out into the Atchafalaya Basin. A series of human alterations to this potentially volatile web of rivers, starting with a bend cutoff in 1831 by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, set the forces in motion for the Mississippi’s move into the Atchafalaya Basin. Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River’s impending diversion, the book’s chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, a changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet. Beyond Control is both a history and a close look at an inexorable, living process happening now in the twenty-first century.
Bring Judgment Day
Author: Sheila Curran BernardPublisher:
ISBN: 1009117467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But, as this deeply researched book shows, these stories were shaped by the white folklorists who 'discovered' Lead Belly and, along with reporters, recording executives, and radio and film producers, introduced him to audiences beyond the South. Through a revelatory examination of arrest, trial, and prison records; sharecropping reports; oral histories; newspaper articles; and more, author Sheila Curran Bernard replaces myth with fact, offering a stunning indictment of systemic racism in the Jim Crow era of the United States and the power of narrative to erase and distort the past.
Tennessee Historical Quarterly
Author: CULTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY OF LOWER FIFTH LOUISIANA LEVEE DISTRICT, LEVEE ITEM M-308-5 TO 303-R, CONCORDIA, WEST FELICIANA AND POINTE COUPEE PARISHES, LOUISIANA.
Author: JAMES RICHARD. SHENKELCultural Resource Survey and Testing of the East Jefferson Parish Levee Gap Closure, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
This report presents the results of archeological survey and testing of a 15.2 x 285 m (1.1 ac) project area situated in southwestern Kenner, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Field work was conducted for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Now Orleans District, prior to planned construction of a levee gap closure along the Jefferson/St. Charles Parish boundary. Field work consisted of pedestrian survey augmented by the systematic excavation of 48 shovel tests. During survey, one previously unrecorded archeological site, Universal Match sits (16JE219), was identified within the project area. This site consisted of remains associated with an early twentieth century house, and a contemporaneous train depot for the Orleans-Kenner Electric Railway Company. Two 1 x 1 m excavation units were placed within the site. Based on data collected during survey, it is apparent that the site has been damaged extensively; it lacks both archeological integrity and research potential. The site does not possess the quality of significance, as defined by National Register of Historic Places criteria. No additional testing of the Universal Match site (16JE219) is recommended.
Cultural Resources Survey of Gretna Phase II Levee Enlargement
Author: R. Christopher GoodwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological survey
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Cultural Resources Survey of Gretna Phase 2 Levee Enlargement Item M-99.4 to 95.5-R, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
During October and November 1988, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc, conducted a Level II cultural resources survey of the Gretna Phase II, Levee Enlargement Item on the west (right descending) bank of the Mississippi River near Gretna, Louisiana. Six historic archeological sites and three historic standing structures were recorded. Site 16JE207 is a multicomponent site that may include an antebellum brickyard, part of an historic formal garden, and possibly antebellum drainage system elements. Site 16JE208 is a late nineteenth to early twentieth century wharf used by the Louisiana Cypress Company. Site 16JE209 consists of the remains of one to three circa 1890 double shotgun houses that were torn down after 1960. Site 16JE210 may represent the remains of a late nineteenth and early twentieth century brick kiln. Site 16JE211 is a late nineteenth to early twentieth century deposit of ceramic chemical ring fragments and hand and machine-made bricks. Sites 16JE212 is a deeply buried deposit of nineteenth century artifacts on the modern batture within the historic town of McDonoghville. Sites 16JE208, 16JE209, and 16JE211 lack integrity and no further work is recommended at these sites. Because of redesign of levee setback plans after this study was initiated, Site 16JE210 is no longer in danger of being impacted; therefore, no further archeological testing is required there. However, if future construction threatens the site, it should be tested and fully evaluated. Further testing is recommended at Sites 16JE207 and 16JE212 in order to determine their nature and significance.
Author: JAMES RICHARD. SHENKEL
Author: BERT F. RADER