The historical dendroarchaeology of the Green Hotel, Cave Spring, Georgia, U.S.A.

DeWeese, Georgina G.; Grissino-Mayer, Henri D.; Bishop, W. J.

doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2017.02.004

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“…These harvest dates establish an earliest possible date of construction and provide evidence to estimate the true age of a structure [1]. Precision dating of historic structures in the southeastern United States (US) has flourished in the last decade [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Within this region, the Gulf Coastal Plain remains under-represented aside from three published studies [12][13][14].…”

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Latewood Ring Width Reveals CE 1734 Felling Dates for Walker House Timbers in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Patterson

Harley

Holt

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Dendroarchaeology is under-represented in the Gulf Coastal Plain region of the United States (US), and at present, only three published studies have precision dated a collection of 18th–19th-century structures. In this study, we examined the tree-ring data from pine, poplar, and oak timbers used in the Walker House in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Walker House was constructed ca. the mid-1800s with timbers that appeared to be recycled from previous structures. In total, we examined 30 samples (16 pines, 8 oaks, and 6 poplars) from the attic and crawlspace. We cross-dated latewood ring growth from the attic pine samples to the period 1541–1734 (r = 0.52, t = 8.43, p < 0.0001) using a 514-year longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) latewood reference chronology from southern Mississippi. The crawlspace oak samples produced a 57-year chronology that we dated against a white oak (Quercus alba L.) reference chronology from northeast Alabama to the period 1765–1822 (r = 0.36, t = 2.83, p < 0.01). We were unable to cross-date the six poplar samples due to a lack of poplar reference chronologies in the region. Our findings have two important implications: (1) the pine material dated to 1734 represents the oldest dendroarchaeology-confirmed dating match for construction materials in the southeastern US, and (2) cross-dating latewood growth for southeastern US pine species produced statistically significant results, whereas total ring width failed to produce significant dating results.

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