Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town with a Large Black Population

Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town with a Large Black Population
ISBN-10
081380244X
ISBN-13
9780813802442
Category
Social Science / Archaeology
Pages
207
Language
English
Published
1984
Publisher
Iowa State University Press
Authors
David M. Gradwohl, Nancy M. Osborn

Description

Few sources before have dealt with the archeology of black settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states.

This new 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 archeology 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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