Charlie and others:  re your question about late 19th and early 20th
century historic sites.
 
Linda Derry says "whatever happened to the planning process?  whatever
happens to historic contexts?"  Hooray for Linda.  INDEED, the way for
historic archeologists to get the attention of SHPOs and federal land
managers is to PREPARE A CONTEXT for historic 19th and 20th century rural
domestic homesteads-- which is exactly what the Arkansas Archeological
Survey, the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests in Arkansas, and the
Arkansas SHPO are doing as we speak!  What are the site types; what are
expected features; how to identify in surveys; how to test to find what
might be "diagnostic" features and/or artifacts; how to establish
significance!  etc. etc.  The Shawnee National Forest in southern
Illlinois is WAY ahead of us all, however; they had Garrow and Associates
do an historic context on 19th/20th century farmsteads in 1989;  it deal
with a tiny little portion on the southern part of the forest, but it is
a start.  The work that SMU did on turn of the century sites in Richland
Creek area is also useful.
 
We probably won't have a context document ready for distribution for a
year or so, so don't everyone get all excited and ask for a copy.  You'll
hear about it when its ready!
 
Charlie: I've copied off the messages that have come on HISTARCH; if
you've gotten any personnel, would you send them on?
 
hester davis
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