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Petersburg Main Unit
Five Forks Unit
Federal Picket Line
City Point

AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL OVERVIEW
AND ASSESSMENT OF THE FIVE FORKS UNIT

Petersburg National Battlefield, Virginia

Frontmatter
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Management Summary

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Acknowledgments

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Tables

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Figures

Table of Contents (below)

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Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Geographical Setting of Five Forks

Chapter Three: Paleoenvironment and Prehistoric Occupation

Chapter Four: Historic Occupation

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Pre-1782 Land Holdings

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The Emergence of the Land Tax in 1782

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The Coleman/Goodwyn/Gilliam Tract or "Burnt Quarter"

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The Sydnor Tracts

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The Thweatt Tracts

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The Fraser Tract

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The Boisseau and Young/Gilliam/Perkinson Tracts

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Map Chronology

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The Landscape 1865-1880: Vegetation

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The Physical Landscape, 1859-1869

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The Agricultural Landscape, 1860

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The Social Landscape of Slavery

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The Landscape 1880-1990: Structures and Vegetation

Chapter Five: Summary and Observations

References

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