I've been following this thread and would like to echo Sean's
suggestion. Railroad era logging camps in the western Great Lakes could
mimic what would be a railroad camp in other areas.
Tom
At 07:23 PM 7/20/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Kent,
>
>Off topic - I would not rule out that the site is a railroad era logging
>camp. Does not rule out Italian workers.
>
>Sean
>
>Sean B. Dunham, RPA
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> >>> Kent Taylor <[log in to unmask]> 07/20/06 11:50 AM >>>
>Smoke,
>
> From some of the responses I've been getting, I'm leaning towards Italian
> immigrant railroad workers as the possible source of the oven at the
> site. To be able to assign a structure or artifact to a particular
> ethnic group is very interesting and something that is usually difficult
> to do. Perhaps this case will prove to be the exception.
>Thanks,
>
>
>Kent
>
>Smoke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: When I worked on the Kootenai Forest,
>we had them along the Northern
>Pacific railroad. Local had called them "Chinese Ovens" for years.
>Research had showed them to be along many of the railroad lines in the
>western states. They are known in the northern Mediterranean from
>Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, and Greece.
>
>If anyone wants so see what one looks like, the Early Arkansas
>Reenactors Association has built one at the Historic Site of Cadron
>Settlement along the Arkansas River. This one was built with a base
>since so many of us are "getting on in years" and it is easier than
>bending over. We use it a LOT. Mostly for Pizza but for bread, pies
>and cobbler, too.
>
>http://www.arkie.net/%7Eeara/Building%20a%20Wood%20Fired%20Oven.html
>
>Smoke.
>
>
>On 7/19/06, Kent Taylor wrote:
> > In doing an archaeological survey in Wisconsin, one our crews came upon
> what
> > they described as a railroad camp that included the ruins of a
> > beehive-shaped stone cooking oven and a great deal of faunal material,
> > especially bovine. Has anyone else come across a similar situation?
> And how
> > was it explained. Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Kent Taylor
> >
>
>
>--
>Smoke Pfeiffer
>
>Absence of Evidence is NOT Evidence of Absence
>
>
>
>Kent C. Taylor, M.A., RPA
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