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>SETTLER'S CEMETERY UNCOVERED DURING ROAD PROJECT 02/01/99 12:35PM OLD
>RIVER, Texas (AP) _ An early settler's family cemetery has  been discovered
>on the site of a $3.2 million road expansion project after a backhoe
>operator uncovered nails and discolored soil in the shape of two coffins.
>The state project to widen FM 1409, about 15 miles east of Houston, has
>been halted while officials unearth the remains and rebury them elsewhere.
>In the meantime, official notice has been printed in the local newspapers
>to alert any descendants of plantation owner John Carman that the Carman
>family cemetery has been found. The cemetery, located on a bluff near a
>bridge that crosses Old River on FM 1409, is supposed to include five
>graves with burials from 1850 to 1867, according to historical records.
>Evidence of two of those graves has been found and there are plans to
>search for a third, but two others are believed to have been covered when
>FM 1409 first was built, said Texas Department of Transportation engineer
>Ed Seymour. After being warned of the cemetery's existence by a Chambers
>County historian, a backhoe operator spent three days digging before
>uncovering the nails and discolored soil around two graves. No markers or
>bones have been found. Plans call for an anthropologist and mortician to
>unearth the remains and rebury them in new coffins in another family
>cemetery nearby that belonged to Carman's brother-in-law, Dr. Edward G.
>Hartman, a German immigrant and physician. Local historian Kevin Ladd said
>Carman was born in 1816 in Tennessee and had a plantation in Louisiana
>before settling in Old River. Records indicate he had nine children with
>his first wife and four with his second wife. After fighting in the Civil
>War, Carman relocated to Jasper and Newton counties. He died at age 59 and
>was buried in San Antonio in 1875, Ladd told the Houston Chronicle in
>Monday's editions. The five people buried at the Chambers County site are
>his daughter, Mary Emily Carman, who drowned at age 4 in 1850; his maternal
>grandmother, Mary Hart, who died at age 80 in 1853; his son, John Robert
>Carman, who drowned at age 6 in 1855; his wife, Martha Carman, who died at
>age 46 in 1858; and a daughter with his second wife, Amanda-Mary Willy
>Carman, who died at the age of 7 months in 1867.
>
>
>EVEN GROUND CAN BE HISTORIC, SALTSMAN SAYS 02/02/99 02:38AM NASHVILLE,
>Tenn. (AP) _ When it comes to federal law, even the land where historic
>structures once sat is considered historic. That's good if you're a
>historic preservationist; bad if you want to build a highway and keep some
>jobs. The historic issue was brought up Monday as Commissioner Bruce
>Saltsman offered proof to state legislators that Tennessee's Department of
>Transportation is not an unresponsive bureaucracy that makes major
>decisions away from the public's eye. House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh appointed
>a special committee Jan. 12 to look into how the Transportation decides to
>spend $1.2 billion a year and where it goes. Naifeh cited complaints from
>motorists who are frustrated at construction delays and from legislators
>who are fed up with lack of response from TDOT. Critics testified last week
>that the Department of Transportation does not listen to citizen complaints
>on highway planning and construction. Saltsman said he and TDOT employees
>have met several times with critics and responded with letters. But the
>biggest problem, Saltsman said, is the federal government, which attaches
>strings to every highway construction and maintenance dollar it sends to
>Tennessee. A Polk County man said he's willing to tear down a potentially
>historic house so a new U.S. 411 won't have to make a big curve around it.
>A new highway will mean the relocation of some businesses and some loss of
>jobs, Bishop said. But Saltsman said that won't help get the new highway
>where Ken Bishop and other people in Benton want it. Federal highway money
>can't be spent on projects that affect historic property or potentially
>historic property. "I'm only doing what federal law tells me to do,"
>Saltsman said. When asked is removing the 155-year-old house _ which is
>potentially historic only because of the way its bricks are laid _ would
>solve the problem, Saltsman said that's still not good enough for federal
>guidelines. "They tell us he can tear the house down. Now, get ready for
>this one, the ground is historic," he said. Bishop said the TDOT picked an
>alternate Polk County route that could create a long curve and go around
>the Nancy Ward Grave, named for a Cherokee Indian woman who likely was not
>buried there, and Clemmer House, named for the family who built it in 1843.
>Bids for the highway project have not been let. A widening project along
>Briley Parkway in Nashville could wind up affecting the historic Tanglewood
>District near the Opryland complex. Residents had complained the TDOT was
>not listening to their concerns about a stream and swimming pool. TDOT
>officials have written eight letters and met with Tanglewood residents
>three times, said TDOT planning director Bill moore. "We're complying with
>every law known to man," he said.
>
>
>http://www.expressnews.com:80/pantheon/news-bus/metro/0306bmc1.shtml Native
>American groups fear construction of a municipal golf course is desecrating
>American Indian burial grounds. Not satisfied with state and federal
>oversight of the project, they want to see documents showing what plans
>exist to preserve historic sites or burial areas. The Native American
>Graves Protection and Repartition Act, or NAGPRA, protects Indian grave
>sites on federal land and land owned by entities receiving federal aid. The
>golf course site contains what could be 20 or more Indian burial mounds.
>
>
>http://www.azcentral.com:80/sev/news/0203egypt.shtml Reno, who once dreamed
>of becoming an archaeologist, had students transform Poston Junior High
>School library by building an Egyptian tomb, replete with hieroglyphs and
>sculptures. "I hope one of these kids becomes an archaeologist," she said.
>
>
>http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/local/docs/festival02.htm The 12th
>Annual Migration Festival will be held Feb. 13 at Natural Bridges State
>Park in Santa Cruz. The California Gold Rush beckoned thousands of people
>from all over the world and ignited a human migration that changed the face
>of America forever, particularly the West.
>
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/03/140l-020399-idx.ht
>ml The Army's plans to dig for canisters of WWI mustard agents in the back
>yard of the South Korean ambassador's residence. A little-known chapter of
>the area's military history, the American University Experiment Station
>closed after the war ended in 1918, but the past was uncovered in 1993 when
>a contractor digging a trench found a cache of munitions.
>
>
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Anita Cohen-Williams
Listowner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, SPANBORD
Acting Listowner of MUSEUM-L
Contributing Editor, Anthropology page, http://www.suite101.com
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