Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Creator Cronin, John Thomas, 1935- Remove constraint Creator: Cronin, John Thomas, 1935- Advisor Brauner, David Remove constraint Advisor: Brauner, David License All rights reserved Remove constraint License: All rights reserved

Search Results

  • Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    cultural resource technicians, John Kwait, Dave Beck and Dwayne Guthrie, who also share an interest in

  • Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    cultural resource technicians, John Kwait, Dave Beck and Dwayne Guthrie, who also share an interest in

  • Beagle, Oregon, An Unknown Casualty of War: Camp White and the Destruction of a Farming Community During the Second World War

    Creator:
    Shelnutt, Kay
    Abstract:
    This project examines the landscape of the farming community of Beagle, Oregon prior to and during the Second World War and the effect on it due to the construction of Camp White, a World War II training facility. The Beagle landscape is examined through the prism of current theory that...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    the rest of creation" (Thomas 2001: 167). Indeed, as all earthly creation flowed from God who

  • An evaluation of the archaeological potential of Riverfront Park in Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Littlefield, Steven W.
    Abstract:
    The archaeological resources contained in Corvallis Riverfront Commemorative Park (RCP) have a great potential to add to the historical record of the warehouse district of the original town of Marysville (Corvallis). The City of Corvallis' proposed Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project and proposed changes to Riverfront Commemorative Park threaten to...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    block between Madison and Jefferson is Willamette silt loam, 0-3% slope (WeA) (Thomas 1995:4). 16

  • A study of acculturation : ORMU57, Portland's Old Chinatown, ca. 1870-1920

    Creator:
    Wernz, Maralee
    Abstract:
    This archaeological based research uses ceramics in the study of acculturation from a site excavated by an urban archaeology contract firm, and utilizes the theories of consumer choice, ethnicity and acculturation. Artifact analysis took place in the form of minimum vessel counts, artifact relative frequencies, and Chinese artifact values, as...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    Loven_Hall_blacksmiths_(unknown_date) 1900 John J. Richardson carpentry shop; Sam McCann boarder; teamster, age 38 years

  • Just Beneath the Surface : Analysis of Excavations at 35WS453, The Dalles Chinatown

    Creator:
    French, Jamie
    Abstract:
    In a mostly abandoned block, capped by concrete, the building at 210 East 1st Street, The Dalles, Oregon still stands as one of three remaining structures. This building housed the Wing Hong Hai Company, a mercantile store and Chinese laundry, from 1889 to 1926. Beneath the modern concrete that encircles...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    , Fagan 1993, Striker and Sprague 1993, Wegars 1995) such as the work done in John Day, Oregon at Kam