That would be:

Author  Wheaton, Thomas
Title   Drayton Hall: Archaeological Testing of the Orangerie
Date    1989
Pub. by New South Associates
Pub. for        National Trust for Historic Preservation
County  Charleston
type proj       testing
sites   38CH255

Not an extensive project -- only a few shovel tests and two 5' squares. No actual evidence of the structure's purported function as an orangerie or green house was found.




2/21/2002 10:11:53 AM, southarc <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>  Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:11:53 -0500
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>  From:   southarc <[log in to unmask]>
>  Subject:Re: mid 18th-century orangery sites?
>  To:     [log in to unmask]
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>  I believe work was done on the orangery at Drayton plantation in Charleston,
>  SC.
>
>  Lucy Wayne
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>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Whitney Thomey
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>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:22 PM
>  Subject: mid 18th-century orangery sites?
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>  I am a senior at the College of William and Mary, and I'm conducting some
>  research on Greenspring Plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia.  Historic
>  records show that the approximate location of where we are digging is the
>  eighteenth-century Orangery site.  I have been trying to track down site
>  reports for some other similar sites to make some comparative analysis.
>  Someone suggested that I try finding a site report for the Calvert Orangery
>  in Annapolis, MD.  However, I believe that while there is a lot of research
>  on the site, there isn't a formal "site report."  If anyone knows of sites
>  that would be useful in such a comparative study, please let me know.
>
>  Thank you,
>  Whitney Thomey
>  College of William and Mary
>  [log in to unmask]
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