Archaeology at Mississippi River Bridge and Poplar · Archaeology Archaeological investigations...
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Archaeology at the new St. Louis Mississippi River
Bridge and Poplar Street Bridge
Projects
Mike Meinkoth Missouri Department of
Transportation Historic Preservation Manager
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Archaeology
Archaeological investigations should add incrementally to our accumulated knowledge and understanding of the past by examining how people:
• adapt to changes in their natural and social environment, and
• respond to contact with new ideas and different people.
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What is an archaeological site?
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The Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge (MRB) Project Location
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The MRB Project
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St. Louis Mound Group (23SL4) & Big Mound (23SL3)
Estimated mound locations from Rogers and Pulcher 1987:20
Survey map (c. 1855) from the Louis La Beaume Collection
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Big Mound (23SL3)
Daguerreotype by Thomas Easterly, taken c. 1854
Daguerreotype by Thomas Easterly, taken in Spring 1869
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Big Mound Site
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City Block 249
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John C. Kupferle Foundry Site (23SL2295)
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John C. Kupferle Foundry Site
Excavation of the machine shop and courtyard.
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Gestring Wagon Factory Site (23SL2295)
Excavation of a water cistern at the factory.
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Gestring Wagon Factory Site
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Gestring Wagon Factory Site
Gestring farm wagon (photograph courtesy of David Sneed)
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Leudinghaus Site (23SL2322)
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Leudinghaus Site
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Worthy Woman’s Site (23SL2316)
1858 perspective map 1876 perspective map
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Worthy Woman’s Site
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Worthy Woman’s Site
Sample of Artifacts: a banded yellow ware chamber pot, a fractional gold coin a black basalt tea pot, and an oil lamp reservoir and chimney
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Worthy Woman’s Site
Sample of Artifacts: a porcelain dolls and toy tea services, marbles, buttons, hard rubber hair combs or berets, and lotto pieces and poker chips
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The Poplar Street Bridge (PSB) Project Area
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The PSB Project
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The PSB Project
Plat of St. Louis in 1780 with the current project area highlighted
The 1876 perspective map
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The PSB Project
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The PSB Project
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Madam Haycraft Site (23SL2334)
Excavation reveals four periods of construction:
• Late 18th Century
• Early and Mid 19th Century
• Early 20th Century
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Madam Haycraft Site: Bouchard Household
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Madam Haycraft Site: Bouchard Household
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Madam Haycraft Site: Coussot Household
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Louis Beaudoin Site (23SL2369)
Trench profile showing soil stratigraphy and possible privy or cistern below a nineteenth-century residence
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Louis Beaudoin Site
West Wall Trench
Post-in-Earth (Poteau-en-Terre) Construction
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Louis Beaudoin Site
18th century artifacts: Rouen Blue on White and Provence Yellow on White faience, a lead bale seal, a gun spall, and lead-glazed coarse earthenware
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Fifi Site (23SL2385)
Exposing a copper kettle lug
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Fifi Site
Excavating the copper kettle lug & a cache of glass trade beads
Exposed fragments of butchered animal bones & limestone
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Additional Information at: http://www.modot.org/ehp/HistoricPreservation.htm