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In a message dated 3/4/1999 11:43:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Fort Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, Michigan, originally established by
the French in 1715, is almost entirely built in the poteaux-en-terre style.
For more information see Donald Heldman's entry for Colonial Michilimackinac
in Buildings of Michigan by Kathryn Eckert (1993), pp. 416-417.
Lynn Evans
Curator of Archaeology
Mackinac State Historic Parks
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You might also refer to my work at John de la Howe's Lethe Farm, a late 18th
century farmstead on the South Carolina frontier... there is a page on my web
site--
http://encore-net.com/diachronic
Trench and post architecture, erroneously attributed to an African origins, is
common on South Carolina Lowcountry plantations, especially in the "French
Santee" area of Berkeley County.
Carl Steen
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