The pattern of liquor bottles.  I wished I'd paid more attention to other 
trash patterns but the investigation was only survey level.  There were a 
few piees of metal cookware interspersed with the liquor bottles, and it all 
was deposited near a feature I thought to be a privy pit location.

Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Dunham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: Liquor in CCC camp


> Dan,
>
> Are you referring to the pattern of liquor bottles on the periphery of
> the camp or the lack of "trash" on the camp that Mark noted (or both)?
>
> Sean
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 11/09/05 02:15PM >>>
> I have found the same pattern on the periphery of WPA camps and crew
> work
> areas, especially WPA rock quarries.  WPA crews were quite active here
> in
> Mid Tenn on improving public parks, etc.
>
> Dan Allen
> Cumberland Research Group, Inc.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Liquor in CCC camp
>
>
>> Yep, still lurking,
>>
>> As Sean noted, we did a bunch of CCC camp nventory surveys for the
>> Huron-Manistee National Forests in Michigan's northern Lower
> Peninsula
>> (1985-86).  Our
>> findings were conclusive in one respect ... With no exceptions, these
>
>> camps
>> were run as military installations, with most, if not all trash being
>
>> hauled
>> off-site for disposal.  The actual grounds of these camps were
> virtually
>> trash-free ... presumably carefully and regularly policed for trash.
>
>> Memory tells me
>> that several of these off-site dumps were relocated, but not by me.
> John
>> Davis, archaeologist for the Huron-Manistee would be the person to
> contact
>> ([log in to unmask]).
>>
>> Mark C. Branstner
>> Great Lakes Research, Inc
>> 210 E. Sherwood Road
>> Williamston, MI 48895
>> 1-517-927-4556 / [log in to unmask]
>>
>