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An Archaeological Overview and Assessment of the
Main Unit, Petersburg National Battlefield, Virginia

Table 6.2
Temporal boundaries of thematic contexts (VDHR 1992) within Main Unit

Temporal Period

Northeast

Southeast

Central

Western

Paleoindian

possible

unknown

unknown

unknown

Early Archaic

Middle Archaic

Late Archaic

unknown

unknown

probable

unknown

unknown

probable

unknown

unknown

present

unknown

unknown

probable

Early Woodland

Middle Woodland

Late Woodland

present?

probable

probable

unknown

unknown

unknown

unknown

probable

unknown

unknown

probable

unknown

European Settlement
to Society 1607-1750

A. Contact

B. Plantation Slavery




unknown

Cole
Turnbull




unknown

unknown




unknown

Bate
Taylor




unknown

unknown

Colony to Nation
1750-1789

Cole
Turnbull

unknown

Bate
Taylor

unknown

Early National
1789-1830

Cole
Friend

unknown

Bate
Heath

unknown

Antebellum
1830-1860

Jordan
Friend

Dunn
Gibbons

Hare
Taylor

 Griffith

Civil War
1861-1865

destroyed damaged

damaged?
destroyed

destroyed
destroyed

destroyed

Reconstruction & Growth 1865-1917

abandoned?
Friend

abandoned?
abandoned

abandoned
Taylor

abandoned

World Wars I and II
1917-1945

USA/NPS1
Friend

USA/NPS
nursery

NPS
dairy farm

golf course
NPS

New Dominion
1945-present

NPS
NPS

NPS
NPS

NPS
NPS

NPS
NPS

1 USA = United States Army (Camp Lee); NPS = National Park Service

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