A Nineteenth-Century Quaker Family Farmstead in the North Carolina Piedmont: Data Recovery Excavations at the Trogdon-

Squirrel Creek Site, Randolph County, North Carolina.

D. Brad Hatch (Dovetail Cultural Resource Group)

Introduction • 1792: Catherine Trogdon Hammer and Abraham Hammer• 1826: Levisia Hammer and John Trogdon, Jr.• 1875: John M. Trogdon and Nancy Trogdon• 1883: Peter Glasgow• 1918: Samantha Jane Moore• Post-1920: Out of Family

Identification and Previous Investigations

Data Recovery Plan/ Research Questions

• Agriculture and Rural Lifeways

• Landscape

• Family and Land Histories

Methodology

• Mapping

• Metal Detecting

• Soil Chemistry

• Random Test Units

• Block Excavation

• Feature Excavation

Results: Buildings and Features (Dwelling)

Results: Buildings and Features (Outbuilding)

Results: Buildings and Features (Fences)

Results: Buildings and Features (Road)

Results: Artifacts

Results: Artifacts

Interpretations: Dating

Interpretations: Landscape Use

Interpretations: Landscape Use

Interpretations: Local Economy

Conclusions/Continuing Research

Thank You

• NCDOT (Brian Overton and Matt Wilkerson)

• OSA (John Mintz)

• Hal and Eleanor Pugh

• Tommy Cranford

• Mary Farrell

• Jerry Darnell