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Of Limestone And Labor: Shipwrecks Of The Stone Trade. The 1999 Bullhead Point Stone Barge Investigation



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  • Sea Grant Program:
    WISCU (Wisconsin Sea Grant)
  • Description:
    Shipwrecks typically represent the remains of mundane vessels, and that it was the everyday worker, with their generic barges and tugs, that brought prosperity to Wisconsin's Door County region in the 19th and early 20th centuries, earning a place in history by shear determination and hard work. The purpose of this project was to archaeologicall​y analyze three sunken hulks, lying near Bullhead Point in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, with the aim to better reveal the historic past. In a broad sense, these wrecks help to reconstruct part of the late 19th century community of Sturgeon Bay, a time when staccato blasts of dynamite and black powder echoed over a constant ring of stone drills, and the intermittent rumbling of hundreds of tons of cargo cascading into the gigantic hollow shells of waiting stone barges.
  • Series:
  • Sea Grant Document Number:
    WISCU-S-99-001
  • Document Type:
    Technical Report
  • Funding:
    Grant no. NA86RG0047
  • Rights Information:
    Public Domain
  • Compliance:
    Library
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha256:da84d233d8194bcf023473838eb35fe4b373296897b0b67be3830da3617a409b
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