Larry Babits at East Carolina University would be a good one to talk to.
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On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 12:18 PM, O'Malley, Nancy <[log in to unmask]>
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> I'm looking for someone knowledgeable about North Carolina colonial
> history and archaeology as it relates to defensive sites such as forts in
> the 18th century. Specifically, I am trying to determine what prior
> experience/exposure the North Carolina proprietors of the Transylvania
> Company had regarding architectural templates for defensive sites when they
> established Fort Boonesborough in Kentucky in 1775. I'm aware of Fort
> Johnston established in 1744 by the British to defend the Cape Fear region
> (although I don't know anything about how it was built). My very initial
> impression is that the proprietors and settlers of Fort Boonesborough did
> not have much if any experience of fortified sites similar to the militia
> forts erected in West Virginia that shared elements with the
> civilian/settler forts built in Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.
> Judge Richard Henderson, who spearheaded the Fort Boonesborough enterprise,
> drew a plan of the fort that incorporated blockhouses, stockade and cabins
> into a defensible rectangular plan. From what I know of his background, he
> didn't have any experience with military forts other than the likelihood
> that he had seen or knew about British forts that followed classic European
> fort construction
> templates. Some of the people with him probably had more knowledge but the
> fort template that was repeated with variations across Kentucky seems to
> have been a new hybrid. There are contemporary sites like Bledsoe's Station
> in Tennessee that followed a similar architectural template. Offline is
> fine with me.
>
> Nancy O'Malley
> Assistant Director/Curator
> William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology
> 1020A Export St.
> University of Kentucky
> Lexington, KY 40506
> Phone: 859-323-9855
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> https://uky.academia.edu/NancyOMalley
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