Rear cover notes: "Few sources before have dealt with the archaeology of black settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states. This book describes in detail the archaeological investigations conducted at the townsite of Buxton, Iowa, a coal mining community inhabited by a significantly large population of blacks between 1900 and 1925. David Gradwohl and Nancy Osborn present the archaeology of Buxton from 'the ground up' to articulate the material remains with the data acquired from archival studies and oral history interviews. They also examine the broader significance of the Buxton experience in terms of those who lived there and their children and grandchildren who have heard about Buxton all their lives."
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Buried African-American history,
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This is a wonderful exploration of a major facet of African-American history--a look at a place and time where the children of slaves built a prosperous local society. Buxton was a company town in Iowa where African-Americans comprised the middle class, the miners, the teachers, the doctors...and Whites were a minority. Race relations were generally unselfconsciously excellent, aged former residents indicated to interviewers (some of whom just could not believe it!); these people ran into the harsh racism of the outside world when the company town was disbanded and people had to resettle in DesMoines or Chicago or wherever. This book concentrates on the archaeological aspect of the Buxton Project. A must for any library of African-American studies, historical archaeology, and Midwestern history.
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This archaeological study gives a thorough, technical report of research conducted during the 1980s in Buxton, Iowa. Buxton was a company mining town in southern Iowa which was most distinctive because the majority of its population was African-American. This thriving town's existence only spanned about 25 years; today there is little surface evidence of its life. The book includes social history based on material culture, published and primary documents, and oral history.
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rather a town with a centralized business and commercial district (see Fig. 3), planned streets, and relatively commodious houses set out on numbered, quarter-acre lots in a well-established settlement pattern (see Fig. 4). Today few obvious vestiges of the town remain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
site survey unit, glass container fragments, miscellaneous ceramic objects, milk glass pieces, center section line, kerosene lamp parts, stoneware sherds, plat map shows, first company store, archaeological laboratory, other structural remains, transparent glass containers, portable artifacts, ground cover conditions, surface reconnaissance, quadrat survey, storage crocks, fields being cultivated, china tableware, lid liners, china fragments, plow zone, glass artifacts, unnamed street, present ground surface Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bluff Creek, Iowa State Bystander, Consolidation Coal Company, First Street, White House Hotel, Dorothy Collier, Main Street, Des Moines, Archie Harris, George Neal, Iowa State Historical Department, Mahaska County, United States, East Fourth Street, Joe Keegel, New York, Swedish Lutheran Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mabel Blomgren, East Third Street, Iowa Club Inc, Case Keegel, Elmer Buford, West Swede Town, Wilma Stewart New!
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rather a town with a centralized business and commercial district (see Fig. 3), planned streets, and relatively commodious houses set out on numbered, quarter-acre lots in a well-established settlement pattern (see Fig. 4). Today few obvious vestiges of the town remain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
site survey unit, glass container fragments, miscellaneous ceramic objects, milk glass pieces, center section line, kerosene lamp parts, stoneware sherds, plat map shows, first company store, archaeological laboratory, other structural remains, transparent glass containers, portable artifacts, ground cover conditions, surface reconnaissance, quadrat survey, storage crocks, fields being cultivated, china tableware, lid liners, china fragments, plow zone, glass artifacts, unnamed street, present ground surface Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bluff Creek, Iowa State Bystander, Consolidation Coal Company, First Street, White House Hotel, Dorothy Collier, Main Street, Des Moines, Archie Harris, George Neal, Iowa State Historical Department, Mahaska County, United States, East Fourth Street, Joe Keegel, New York, Swedish Lutheran Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mabel Blomgren, East Third Street, Iowa Club Inc, Case Keegel, Elmer Buford, West Swede Town, Wilma Stewart New!
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- Exploring Buried Buxton by David M. Gradwohl in Front Matter, and page 160
- The Civil War by Gina De Angelis on page 188
- The Garden Book (Mini Edition) by Editors of Phaidon Press on page 196
- Main Street: The Anthology of the McMaster Writing Program by various on page 42
- Andrew Jackson by George E. Stanley on page 54
- Tales Out of School-95-Ihc (Iowa Heritage Collection) by Verl Shoemaker in Back Matter
- Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies (Iowa Heritage Collection) by Cora Frear Hawkins in Back Matter
- Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History through Skeletal Analysis by Anne L. Grauer on page 33
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