Historic Homestead Survey of Versailles State Park
Creators: name: Franke, Jessica
Publisher: name: Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Indiana
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/44778/indiana
subject: Versailles State Park
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/84956/versailles-state-park
subject: Ripley County
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/84955/ripley-county
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: 12Ri266
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/114254/12ri266
subject: 12Ri265
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/114253/12ri265
subject: 12Ri264
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/114252/12ri264
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: House
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/259/house
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Fence
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/342/fence
subject: Isolated Artifact
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/344/isolated-artifact
subject: Isolated Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/345/isolated-feature
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Homestead
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/715/homestead
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Glass
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/6/glass
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey

description: The Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL) at Ball State University was awarded a FY2019 Historic Preservation Fund grant (Grant # 19FFY-07) to survey (Permit # 2019032) sections of Versailles State Park (VSP), Ripley County, Indiana. This Historic Preservation Fund grant project investigated the archaeological resources of VSP with a focus on developing the histories of house sites within the park. This project conducted Phase Ia shovel testing survey, and select Phase Ib intensive shovel testing survey on 13 potential house locations (~13 acres), which located 10 new archaeological sites and expanded the boundaries of one previously recorded site. In addition, Phase Ia visual survey identified an additional eight archaeological sites, two cemeteries, new features at three previously investigated archaeological sites, and verbal documentation of additional information for two previously documented archaeological sites. This year’s survey investigated a total of 26 historic archaeological sites including four resurveys and two cemetery locations. During this year’s survey eight pre-contact artifacts and 871 historic artifacts were recovered from 13 survey areas in VSP. Between the work during FY2018 and FY2019 a total of 41 new archaeological sites and two new cemeteries were recorded. Of the 41 new sites 31 are house/homestead sites that are recommended as potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places and could constitute a National Register of Historical Places Archaeological District. These 31 house/homestead sites date to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when residents were moved off the property between 1934 and 1943 when the area became VSP.