In 1968, the Southwestern Historical Exploration Society recovered around 1,000 artifacts with an 80-ton dragline crane operated off the Milam Street Bridge. About 650 artifacts from this collection were recently rediscovered in file boxes at the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park and processed and catalogued by members of the Houston Archeological Society.
Josh Farrar is writing his dissertation on this collection, which is entitled The Milam Street Bridge Artifact Assemblage: An Artifact and Document-Based Study and Presentation of Lessons-Learned Concerning the American Civil War and the City of Houston, Texas. This dissertation explores Houston’s Civil War past. As part of his dissertation research, Josh conserved the Milam Street Bridge artifacts at the Texas A&M Conservation Lab for a museum exhibit at the Heritage Society Museum. Some of these artifacts are currently on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin.
This presentation serves as an artifact and document-based study using newspaper accounts, sworn statements, and archaeological reports to reconstruct the history of the Civil War in Houston and of the Milam Street Artifact Assemblage – from abandonment in the bayou to rediscovery at the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park.
In 1968, the Southwestern Historical Exploration Society recovered around 1,000 artifacts with an 80-ton dragline crane operated off the Milam Street Bridge. About 650 artifacts from this collection were recently rediscovered in file boxes at the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park and processed and catalogued by members of the Houston Archeological Society.
Josh Farrar is writing his dissertation on this collection, which is entitled The Milam Street Bridge Artifact Assemblage: An Artifact and Document-Based Study and Presentation of Lessons-Learned Concerning the American Civil War and the City of Houston, Texas. This dissertation explores Houston’s Civil War past. As part of his dissertation research, Josh conserved the Milam Street Bridge artifacts at the Texas A&M Conservation Lab for a museum exhibit at the Heritage Society Museum. Some of these artifacts are currently on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin.
This presentation serves as an artifact and document-based study using newspaper accounts, sworn statements, and archaeological reports to reconstruct the history of the Civil War in Houston and of the Milam Street Artifact Assemblage – from abandonment in the bayou to rediscovery at the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park.
In 1968, the Southwestern Historical Exploration Society recovered around 1,000 artifacts with an 80-ton dragline crane operated off the Milam Street Bridge. About 650 artifacts from this collection were recently rediscovered in file boxes at the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park and processed and catalogued by members of the Houston Archeological Society.
Josh Farrar is writing his dissertation on this collection, which is entitled The Milam Street Bridge Artifact Assemblage: An Artifact and Document-Based Study and Presentation of Lessons-Learned Concerning the American Civil War and the City of Houston, Texas. This dissertation explores Houston’s Civil War past. As part of his dissertation research, Josh conserved the Milam Street Bridge artifacts at the Texas A&M Conservation Lab for a museum exhibit at the Heritage Society Museum. Some of these artifacts are currently on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin.
This presentation serves as an artifact and document-based study using newspaper accounts, sworn statements, and archaeological reports to reconstruct the history of the Civil War in Houston and of the Milam Street Artifact Assemblage – from abandonment in the bayou to rediscovery at the Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park.