Sharpley's Bottom Historic Sites: Phase I Interdisciplinary Investigations, Tombigbee River Multi-Resource District, Alabama and Mississippi.

• Main Authors: Kern,John R, Demeter,C Stephen, Carter,E Suzanne, Tordoff,Judith D, Dotson,C Jason
• Other Authors: COMMONWEALTH ASSOCIATES INC JACKSON MI
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1982
• Subjects: Humanities and History; *HISTORY; SITES; SURVEYS; SAMPLING; ARCHEOLOGY; RURAL AREAS; INTERVIEWING; MISSISSIPPI; Oral history; Historic sites; Sharpleys Bottom; Alabama; Monroe; Archeological Survey
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA128524; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA128524

This report discusses 1980-1981 Phase I interdisciplinary investigations of the Sharpley's Bottom historic sites on the Tombigbee Waterway in Monroe County, Mississippi. Sharpley's Bottom is so named because of its occupation from the 1860s to the 1880s by W. B. Sharpley, a white slavehold...