Corey:

You may want to contact someone in the cultural resources section of the Ohio Department of Transportation-Office of Environmental Services. As I recall, a couple of years back, a corduroy road was inadvertently discovered deep below a modern road during a road project and ODOT's CRM people consulted on the find. I think the road was in Crawford County, Ohio.

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Subject: Corduroy Road Archaeology

Hello there Histarchs,

I am working on a paper for a regional peer-reviewed journal on corduroy road archaeology and I am currently in the process of collecting as many contexts as I can (up to 24 at last count). The paper is based partly on a corduroy road site Hartgen found in New York's North Country dating to the late 18th c. I am particularly interested in construction techs, dating techniques, method of discovery, and species.

At this point, I have reached out to Forest Service archaeologists in Region 9 and SHPOs across the country. I am hoping this current effort reaches CRM professionals. My sense is that a lot of these contexts, since they are found inadvertently often, don't quite make it to being recorded in state registers as a "site." My hope is that the collective corporate memory can be helpful in finding the sites that slip through the cracks (between the logs). Thank you so much for your help.

Corey McQuinn, MA, RPA
Project Director
Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc.