You might check with Kim and Stephen McBride. I believe they have been
doing some research on defensible houses and frontier forts in the
Kentucky/West Virginia area in the past few years.

Carl

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Arkansas Archeological Survey
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Mann, Robbie <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hello Nancy et al.,
>
> It is funny how topics like this come up at just the right moment on
> HISTARCH.  Just yesterday I was mentioning your work to two of my graduate
> students here at St. Cloud State University (SCSU).  This summer we
> received a grant to use remote sensing and shovel testing to locate a
> "settler's fort" built in response to the U.S. - Dakota Conflict of 1862.
> We believe we have located the stockade, which was said to have been built
> around a ca. 1857 log hotel.  We plan to return to the site next summer to
> open up a block of units to better expose the stockade.  In the meantime,
> we have just received a second grant to employ the same methodology to see
> if we can locate another 1862 "settler's fort" here on the campus of SCSU.
> We will be conducting the field work next month.  Both projects will be
> written up as part of my student's thesis projects and we will also produce
> project reports for the Minnesota Historical Society, the source of our
> funding.  In the meantime, my students
>   and I will be presenting the results of our work so far at the upcoming
> Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference (MHAC) being held in Minneapolis
> this October.  I hope that you and others will be able to join us there.  I
> will be sending out the MHAC second CFP to HISTARCH later today.
>
> This is my third year at SCSU and I was surprised to learn that although
> there were over 50 such "settler's forts" built in Minnesota during the
> 1862 U.S. - Dakota Conflict and there are at least two "reconstructions" of
> these forts, until our projects none had been documented archaeologically
> and there has been no systematic effort to locate these sites.  I feel we
> are on the leading edge of such a project here at SCSU and I very much look
> forward to seeing a new edition of your Stockading Up publication.
>
> Best Regards,
> Rob Mann
>
> *******************************************
> Rob Mann, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> St. Cloud State University
> 252 Stewart Hall
> 720 4th Avenue South
> St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301
> phone: 320-308-4181
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> O'Malley, Nancy
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 2:15 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: pioneer station sites
>
> Back in 1987, I published a grant report called Stockading Up that
> compiled historical and archaeological information on defensible station
> sites settled in the Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky during the early
> settlement period. At the time, I knew of no other comprehensive
> compilation of these sites in Kentucky or in other sites that had similar
> defensible sites. Since 1987, I've continued to research stations and some
> years back, I stopped producing copies of Stockading Up for sale because I
> wanted to release a revised publication that reflected my additional
> research, new insights and so on. The revisions are underway and I am
> having to check everything I said in 1987 for accuracy. Although I am aware
> of site-specific studies that have done, I haven't found any comprehensive
> compilations similar to what I produced in 1987 for other states in which
> defensible stations occurred. Is it still a true statement that
> comprehensive studies of stations have not been completed el
>  sewhere?
>
> URL for Kentucky's Frontier Highway, by Karl Raitz and Nancy O'Malley
> http://kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=3070
>
> URL for Love at a Distance by Nancy O'Malley
>
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=Nancy+O%27Malley&categoryId=100501
>
>
> Nancy O'Malley
> Assistant Director
> William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology
> 1020A Export Street
> University of Kentucky
> Lexington, Kentucky 40506
> Ph. 859-257-1944
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