Phase II Archaeological Investigation of 44VB0363 at Marshview Park, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Download or read book Phase II Archaeological Investigation of 44VB0363 at Marshview Park, Virginia Beach, Virginia written by Matthew R. Laird and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2011 Phase I survey for the Virginia Beach Department of Parks & Recreation revealed a concentration of historic artifacts that suggested that this site had been a colonial era (1690-1750) era homestead. This Phase II survey of the site, near a tributary of Lake Rudee, indicated that "the site most likely was occupied during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and into the first years of the nineteenth century. Documentary research indicated that this occupation coincided with the ownership of prominent Princess Anne County planter and Revolutionary War veteran Thomas Reynolds Walker, his son Thomas Walker, and granddaughter Sarah Walker Braithwaite. Since none of the Walkers evidently lived at this location, the site most likely was occupied by one or more tenant farmer families, or perhaps even by some of the enslaved African Americans held by the Walker family....[I]t appears most likely that the site included a small and simple frame dwelling with a brick hearth and possibly a brick chimney, the type of unexceptional dwelling which the vast majority of Princess Anne County residents, free or enslaved, would have called home during the decades following the American Revolution." (excerpted from Abstract and Introduction).