While I don't know if any of the corduroy roads from the Civil War have
been investigated archaeologically, there are many good photographs of
them being constructed during the Peninsula Campaign.  Regarding species
would you expect to find anything that was not growing there at the
time?

Keith  

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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.