SYSTEMWIDE ARCHEOLOGY INVENTORY PROGRAM

Booker T. Washington National Monument which preserves the birthsite of the African American leader, contains the remains of a small-scale slaveholding farm. An archeological Overview and Assessment was begun by the Philadelphia Support Office in coordination with the General Management Plan and an Ethnographic Survey. Activities were limited to scoping and negotiation for a cooperative agreement with Sweet Briar College.

Colonial National Historical Park began the first year of an anticipated three year overview and assessment of the Yorktown Unit. Through a cooperative agreement with the College of William and Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the park began a literature search and review of the previous fifty years of archeological investigation.