Cultural resource investigation of the historic Fort Randall Post Cemetery, Gregory County, South Dakota
name: label: Creator
content: Hannus, L. Adrien
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content: Lueck, Edward J.
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content: Winham, R. Peter
place: label: Place
content: Fort Randall Post Cemetery (Gregory County, South Dakota)
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content: Fort Randall (Gregory County, South Dakota) -- Archeology
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content: Historic archeology
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content: Cultural resources management
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content: Archival documentation
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content: Cemetery reconstruction
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content: Burial records
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content: Aerial photography
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content: Remote sensing
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content: Contour mapping
creator: label: Creator
content: Hannus, L. Adrien
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content: Lueck, Edward J.
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content: Winham, R. Peter
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content: Archaeology reports and related material collection
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content: Archaeology reports and related material collection / Reports and related material
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content: 97 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: January 1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: The goal of this investigation was to document the original land area of the Fort Randall Post Cemetery and the number of interments. Remote sensing techniques were utilized to complement the historical documentation. Of 127 graves previously documented, 67 were recorded as having been disinterred and removed to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1893. Research at the Navy and Old Army Branch of the Military Archives Division of the National Archives located two plans of the cemetery and the official quartermaster's record of burials. All recorded graves, as well as a number of undocumented graves, were located, with subsurface coring confiming the presence of geaves where depressions were not visible. One grave shown on the original plan to

be extant was excavated and found to have been removed. Working with the original cemetery plan, the elaborate network of footpaths was depicted by outlining the borders with a paint-striping machine. Aerial photos were prepared to provide a visual record of how actual reconstruction of the footpaths might appear.