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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Pittsburgh District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program's (VCP) Washington, DC laboratory in the winter of 2010 and then moved to the Alexandria laboratory in August of 2011. The Alexandria VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through John Milner Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Alexandria, Virginia. The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the Stonewall Jackson Reservoir Archaeological Investigation 1974 are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the Alexandria VCP laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Pittsburgh District collection, the same standard procedures and Archaeological Collections Facility (ACF) in West Virginia guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to ACF for permanent curation. The artifact database can be found in tDAR athttps://core.tdar.org/dataset/446947/stonewalljacksonreservoirarchaeologicalinvestigation1974_catalogxlsx

This is the scanned asset key for the Stonewall Jackson Reservoir Archaeological Investigation 1974 collection stored at Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site.

This collection is referred to as "Stonewall Jackson Reservoir Archaeological Investigation 1974." This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is five (5) linear inches. The documents date from 1974 and 1975. The fieldwork took place in 1974, which explains the date in the investigation name. The report states that there are twelve sites that were investigated. Only eleven sites were listed in the report (46LE1, 46LE2, 46LE5-46LE7, 46LE9, 46LE13, 46LE14, and 46LE20- 46LE22). Additionally, site numbers 46LE3, 46LE10, and 46LE12 are referenced in Figure 1 of the final report; however, they are not included in the discussion of the investigation.