Exploring Buried Buxton
Subtitle: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town With a Large Black Population (Iowa Heritage Collection)
Publisher: Iowa State Press
Published: August 30, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813802435
Subjects: Archaeology; Sociology; General; Historical Archaeology; Iowa; History: American; Ghost towns; United States - State & Local - General; Antiquities; Afro-Americans; Buxton; Buxton (Iowa); Excavations (Archaeology)
First sentence: rather a town with a centralized business and commercial district (see Fig. 3), planned streets, and relatively commodious houses set out on numbered, quarter-acre lots in a well-established settlement pattern (see Fig. 4). Today few obvious vestiges of the town remain.