Cindy -

I don't know of any references that might help you with your research, but I do know of another place you might want to check. It's the Industrial Archaeology listserve. You can search their archives, join the list, etc. from their website. Most of the info is from England, but some of the subscribers are American and might have some leads.

Their website is:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ind-arch.html

Good luck!
Amanda Gronhovd

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On 8/21/2002 at 12:39 PM Cindy Peterson wrote:

>I am writing up the excavation of an 1870s-1972 iron/steel shipyard in, of
>all places, Dubuque Iowa, along the Mississippi River. Although I have
>found a bit of gray literature about some of the largest shipyards in the
>country and also about Colonial wooden shipyards, I am having difficulty
>locating anything about shipyards on the Mississippi tributaries, or of
>small scale yet using iron manufacture, elsewhere in the country. I am
>looking for references to archaeological shipyard reports, even if there
>was no excavation involved.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Cindy
>
>
>Cynthia Peterson
>Project  Archaeologist
>Office of the State Archaeologist
>700 CLSB
>University of Iowa
>Iowa City, Iowa 52242
>
>(319) 384-0726
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