Time Sifters Archaeology Society Newsletter December 2021

DECEMBER-2021 PRESERVATION  EDUCATION  RESEARCH  INSPIRE Dear Member: We take a break for the holiday’s in December. We have two changes to the calendar for the Spring … First, The In-Depth Series about The USS Monitor and the Navies of the Civil War has been postponed to January 2023. The other change, we have a new lecture on January 19, Dave Alberg will talk to us about “Lake Meade: B29 bombers & Other Cool Stuff.” We hope you have a good holiday season and will join us when we resume on January 19th. Time Sifters invites you to visit with your friends and support a good cause. This Saturday, December 4th, 10am-2pm, Reflections of Manatee is opening its museums and offering docent- led tours, including the new “Archaeology of Freedom” exhibit about the excavations for Angola. There will also be lawn games, a vintage and craft sale, and a silent auction. Time Sifters board members will be attending and hosting a meet and greet table. Please come by and say hi! Thank you for being a Time Sifters member. hmsbeagle22@gmail.com Darwin “Smitty” Smith, President Get involved ... Florida Historic Cemetery Inventory A project of the Florida Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation, with support from the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) Why historic cemeteries? sites, historic districts, linear As Florida continues to Cemeteries are among resources, landscapes, grow, the search for traditional cultural properties, undeveloped land increases. the most under-recorded and cemeteries. Sites and Cemeteries recorded in the historic resources in Florida. information are continually FMSF are much less likely Only about 1,600 are being added. to be destroyed as a result currently recorded in the Why should we record of construction and Florida Master Site File historic cemeteries? development because their (FMSF) which has more locations are known in than 230,000 cultural and Photos: FPAN advance. FMSF data is historical sites recorded. shared with all county property Estimates indicate that there appraisers so that buyers and are 5,000 to 7,000 historic ceme- developers know of the presence teries in the state that are over of a cemetery at the early stages 50 years of age. This means of project planning. that approximately 3/4 of the How does the Historic Cemetery historic cemeteries in Florida Inventory form help? have not been recorded. We need By completing our short online your help to find and record form or request a physical postcard them! -sized form you can help ensure these often-forgotten but The Florida Division of important historic sites are Historical Resources (DHR) recorded. When your online maintains the state’s inventory of submission or postcard is historical and cultural resources received, DHR staff will consult in the FMSF. This record includes the FMSF data to see if the buildings, structures, bridges, objects, shipwrecks, historic and Continued on page 3 ... prehistoric archaeological

Things to do ... From Legend to History: Archaeology of the Underground Railroad in our Backyard. By Dr. Uzi Baram, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the New College Public Archaeology Lab, New College of Florida For a generation and more, Booker High School students, to inspire further dissemination freedom-seeking people built date to be determined. of the archaeological and oral lives in hamlets from the tradition insights into the Manatee River to Sarasota “From Legend to History” at community of freedom-seekers Bay. Angola, as the early 19th the Community Gallery is one who settled, farmed, ate, cared, century maroon community is of three exhibits on Angola. celebrated and mourned where known, was a haven of liberty Reflections of Manatee in we now live. Please consider from slavery and its inhabitants Bradenton has displays at visiting the exhibits, to show numbered in the hundreds their Visitors Center support for the staff who until the community was (“Freedom Seekers at the Man- advocated for their display and destroyed in 1821, with atee”) and the Mary Amelia to honor the memories of those survivors escaping to the Florida Curry House (\"Archaeology of who came before us. interior or the British Bahamas. Freedom”); see their website Time Sifters Archaeology Society for hours https:// and its members have been reflectionsofmanatee.org/. instrumental in facilitating, supporting, and volunteering In Tallahassee, the Florida for the research, community Museum of History will have engagement, and success in belongings from Angola on locating material evidence of display starting in February the daily life of these maroons 2022 for their “Spirits of the for more than a decade a half. Passage: The Story of the Several exhibits are opening to Transatlantic Slave Trade” view finds and findings. exhibit. These displays seek Starting November 30th and until February, the exhibit “From Legend to History: Archaeology of the Underground Railroad in our Backyard” is on display at the Community Gallery of the Ringling Museum of Art. The Community Gallery is located on the ground floor of the Museum’s Center for Asian Art. The Museum hours are on their website, with Mondays being the free admission day to the art museum. On Monday January 24th at 1:00 pm in the Chao Lecture Hall, I will talk about the exhibit and the role of archaeology in disseminating the maroon heritage, the history of freedom on the Florida Gulf Coast. For information, see https:// www.ringling.org/events/ legend-history-archaeology- underground-railroad-our- backyard. There will also be an interpretive dance performance for the Angola history by

Continued from page 1 ... Contact Information (optional): Provide cemetery is already your contact recorded. If the cemetery information, only if has already been recorded, you want to. If the your submission will be cemetery is not used to update the existing recorded in the file. If the cemetery is not FMSF, we would recorded, DHR and probably like to con- Florida Public Archaeology Photos: Pinterest, FPAN tact you to make sure we go to the right Network (FPAN) staff will place, and to see if you visit the cemetery to further would like to be document the site. It will then be involved. However, you recorded in the FMSF. Please are under no obligation note it is not necessary for the and may remain person submitting the form to visit anonymous if you wish. the cemetery. Some historic ceme- If sending in a teries are on private property, postcard form, please and permission of the property note that they are owner must always be obtained already addressed but do in advance of accessing the land. require a first class stamp! How do I fill out the Historic Now that the cemetery is Cemetery Inventory form? stones are visible, you may recorded, how can I help write “no headstones,” or if no maintain it? Cemetery Name (if known): dates are readable, you may Some cemeteries are privately The cemetery’s name, or what use “cannot determine.” owned. However, descendants, you may know it as. It could families, churches, and local be named after a former Circle all that apply: Based organizations can certainly church, local landmark, or the on your observation – is the “adopt” cemeteries, with land- family that started it. cemetery abandoned? Is it owner permission, and can overgrown with weeds and contribute to their detailed Closest Address: The nearest trees? Does it appear well- recording and preservation. postal address of a home, maintained with grass cut, Other cemeteries may be church, or business will help bushes trimmed, and head- abandoned, and if an owner us find it. You can also include stones cleaned? Are head- cannot be found, you can contact a nearby crossroad, bridge, or stones broken or is there your county government officials landmark. evidence of other vandalism? for more information. Is the cemetery threatened by For more information on best City/Town and County: The construction, erosion, falling practices for cemetery care, nearest community and the trees, animals, or other hazards? FPAN also offers Cemetery county where the cemetery is Resources Protection Training located. Describe visible damage: (CRPT) workshops to train you What do you see in terms of in proper recording, cleaning, GPS Coordinates (optional): collapsing vaults, fallen head- and preservation techniques. Provide these if you can, using stones, animal burrows, storm Still have questions? your smart phone or hand-held damage, vandalism, or Contact us at: info@fpan.us! GPS unit. A spot near visible anything else? headstones is ideal. This is optional if you don’t know or Approximate size of ceme- can’t determine the GPS tery/number of headstones: coordinates. Provide an estimate of the square footage or acreage, or Approximate year established (if the number of headstones still known): This date can be visible. Don’t worry if it’s not determined through local records, perfect. Even one headstone or stories or memory, or the date known grave is sufficient to on the earliest headstone you record a cemetery. Sometimes can find. The county clerk’s older relatives remember the office or county property locations of cemeteries when appraiser may also be able to all evidence above ground is help. gone. If no headstones are present, please fill out the Earliest/Latest headstone form, and FPAN will work with dates: If headstones are DHR to verify the location. visible, look to see the earliest and latest dates. If no head-

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