Historical Archaeology Appendix

Telegraph

Telephone

(Use only as an adjunct to another theme or alone only if another theme cannot be identified)

Named ethnic group

Exploration

Land Survey and Distribution

Indian Agencies

U.S. and State Military

Land Management

Public Works

Public Service

Transportation (for sites associated with government policy or funding)

(Named Native American Group)

Fur and Hide Trade

Mining and Mineral Processing

• Stone Quarrying

• Cement

• Smelting

• Coal

• Uranium

• Placer Mining

• Precious Metals and Industrial Minerals Mining

Timber

Food Processing

• Meat

• Dairying

• Sugar Beet

• Fresh Produce: Fruits and Vegetables

• Grains and Milling

• Canning and Bottling of Agricultural Produce

• Beverage

Oil and Gas

Oil Shale

Electrical Generation

• Water-powered

• Gas, Coal, or Nuclear-powered

• Wind-powered

• Solar

Steel and Iron

Chemical Manufacturing

Non-Metallic Mineral Products

• Brick

• Concrete and Cement

• Stone Finishing

• Cans, Bottles, and Stone Manufacture

Transportation and Freighting (e.g., automobile or wagon manufacturers or sites associated with freighting business)

Arms and Ammunition

Textile Working

Leather Products (e.g., saddle, harness, or clothing manufacture)

Rubber and Plastic Products

Other Specialized Manufacturing

Outdoor

Government Managed

Health Resorts

Entertainment: Civic and Seedy

Social and Industrial (Corporate)

Developed Sport Auto and Railroad

Farming

Ranching

Household

Camp

Town

Company Town

Plaza

Trail

Road

Railroad

(May have subthemes associated with it)

Dam

Head

Works

Canal

Ditch

Flume

Pipeline

Siphon

• Adit

• Air shaft

• Artifact scatter (trash scatter, trash

• dump)

• Basement

• Beacon

• Berm

• Bridle path

• Bridle trail (use bridle path)

• Cairn (purposeful stone marker)

• Campfire ring (use hearth)

• Campsite

• Cemetery

• Chute (log, ore)

• Cinder pile

• Construction debris (brick, stone,

• lumber)

• Cribbing

• Depression

• Drinking fountain

• Dump

• Farm equipment

• Fence

• Fire hearth (use hearth)

• Fire pit (use hearth)

• Fire ring (use hearth)

• Fireplace

• Flag pole

• Foundation

• Fur press

• Game-hanging rack

• Grave

• Grave marker

• Hearth

• Hunting blind

• Inscription (on tree or stone)

• Marker

• Mill tailings (use tailings)

• Mine shaft

• Outhouse hole

• Oven (bread)

• Path

• Peeled tree

• Penstock (pipeline used to transport water, usually under pressure)

• Picnic table

• Pipeline

• Pit

• Playing field

• Pond

• Pool (swimming, hot

• springs)

• Portal

• Post (upright piece of wood, metal, or concrete)

• Prospect hole (use prospect pit)

• Prospect pit

• Quarry

• Ramp

• Reservoir

• Retaining wall

• Rifle pit

• Rock alignment

• Rock art (without writing)

• Rock pile (not cairn)

• Sawdust pile

• Sign

• Slag pile

• Soil stain (use surface stain)

• Spring development

• Stock tank

• Stone circle

• Stone quarry (use quarry)

• Surface stain

• Tailings

• Tailings pile (use tailings)

• Tent platform (use campsite)

• Tent site (use campsite)

• Tipi ring (use stone circle)

• Tramway (aerial, cable,

• funicular)

• Trash disposal pit (use pit)

• Trash dump (use artifact scatter or dump)

• Trash scatter (use artifact scatter)

• Tree art (without writing)

• Trench

• Tunnel (two open ends)

• Vision quest

• Walkway

• Wall

• Waste rock

• Water fountain (use drinking fountain)

• Water wheel

• Well (lined hole or pipe)

• Administration building

• Airfield

• Airport

• Amphitheater

• Art gallery

• Art studio

• Assay office

• Auto dealership

• Auto showroom (use auto dealership)

• Camp (CCC, construction, health, internment, logging, lumber, military, mining, mobilization, organization, stock, training)

• Campfire circle (use amphitheater)

• Campground (use camp)

• Campsite (use camp)

• Canal/Ditch

• Cannery

• Cantonment (use military camp)

• Carriage works

• Casino (use gambling hall)

• Clubhouse

• Coal washery

• Coke oven

• Communication building

• Communication tower

• Communication line

• Community building

• Company office (use office)

• Country club

• Creamery

• Dairy

• Dam

• Depot (bus, railroad, freight)

• Distillery

• Ditch (use canal/ditch)

• Dock (loading, boat)

• Dormitory

• Dude ranch

• Elevator (grain or other product)

• Entrance gate

• Factory (munitions, sugar, other industries)

• Fairground

• Farm

• Fire lookout

• Fire watch tower (use fire lookout)

• Fish hatchery

• Fitness club (use health club)

• Flume

• Food locker (cold storage)

• Fort (use fortification)

• Fortification

• Foundry (lead, steel, iron)

• Fueling facility (usually use service station)

• Gambling hall

• Garden

• Gas station (use service station)

• Gazebo

• Golf course

• Grade (use railroad or road)

• Grange hall (use community building)

• Gristmill

• Guard station

• Gymnasium

• Hall (concert, dance, dining, music, recreation)

• Hangar

• Health club

• Highway (use road)

• Homestead (if it represents acquisition from the public domain)

• Hospital

• Hotel

• House (caddy, customs, opera, pump; for personal home use residence)

• Infirmary (use hospital)

• Kitchen (outdoor, community)

• Landing strip (use airfield)

• Laundry

• Lodge (use resort)

• Meat processing (use slaughterhouse)

• Military base

• Mill (ball, concentration, flour, hammer, planning, stamp, tube)

• Mine (clay, coal, hard-rock, placer, precious metal)

• Motel

• Motor court (use motel)

• Movie house (use theater)

• Museum

• Nursery

• Observation tower

• Office

• Opium den

• Ore loading facility

• Overlook (use viewpoint)

• Packing house (use packing plant)

• Packing plant

• Parade ground

• Park (amusement, city, municipal, theme, national, state)

• Patrol cabin

• Pavilion

• Penstock

• Picnic area

• Picnic ground (use picnic area)

• Pier (use dock)

• Pipeline

• Plant (cement, chemical, crushing, packing, power, steam)

• Playground

• Playing field (usually use sports field)

• Post office

• POW camp (use prison)

• Power line

• Prison

• Racecourse

• Racetrack (use racecourse)

• Radio tower (use communication tower)

• Railroad

• Ranch

• Residence

• Resort (fishing, health, hot springs, hunting, ski)

• Restaurant

• Road (toll, wagon, automobile)

• Ruts (use trail or road)

• Saloon

• Sanatorium (use hospital)

• Sawmill

• School

• Schoolhouse (use school)

• Service station

• Shaft house

• Shelter (fisherman, ice skating, picnic, trail)

• Signal station

• Skating rink

• Slaughterhouse

• Smelter

• Spa (use resort)

• Splash dam (use dam)

• Sports complex/facility

• Sports field

• Stadium (use sports complex)

• Stage (use theater)

• Stage stop

• Station (check-in, comfort, entrance, ranger, toll)

• Stock driveway

• Stockade (use fortification)

• Stockyard

• Stone yard

• Store

• Target range

• Tennis court

• Terminal (usually use depot)

• Theater

• Town

• Trading post

• Trail (cattle, foot, interpretive, ski)

• Viaduct (use bridge)

• Viewpoint

• Vineyard

• Visitor’s center

• Vista point (use viewpoint)

• Water tower

• Winery

• Winter resort (use resort)

• Amphitheater

• Animal pen

• Arrastra

• Assay Office

• Bandstand

• Barn (hay, dairy, horse, etc.)

• Barracks

• Bathhouse

• Bin (ore, coal)

• Blast furnace

• Boarding house

• Boat house boiler house

• Bridge

• Bunkhouse

• Butcher shop

• Cabin

• Canal/ditch

• Cattle pen (use animal pen)

• Cellar (potato, root, cold storage)

• Chicken coop

• Chicken house (use chicken coop)

• Church

• Cistern

• Clubhouse

• Commercial building

• Community building

• Concentrating mill

• Cookhouse

• Corral

• Crane (use derrick)

• Dam

• Derrick

• Distillery

• Ditch (use canal/ditch)

• Dock dugout

• Factory

• Fire lookout

• Flour mill

• Flume

• Fortification

• Garage

• Gazebo

• Grade (use railroad, road)

• Grain bin (use granary)

• Grain elevator

• Granary

• Guard house

• Head frame

• Head gate

• Head works

• Hogan

• Hoist house

• Hospital

• Ice house

• Infirmary

• Jail

• Kiln (charcoal, line, brick, etc)

• Kitchen (outdoor, community)

• Latrine (use outhouse)

• Laundry

• Lean-to

• Loading chute

• Loading dock

• Log cabin (use cabin)

• Mess hall

• Office

• Ore bin

• Ore mill

• Outhouse

• Powder house

• Power plant

• Privy (use outhouse)

• Public building

• Pump house

• Railroad depot

• Ramada

• Refinery

• Residence

• Resort

• Rock crusher

• Room

• Root cellar (use cellar)

• Sawdust burner

• Sawmill

• School

• Schoolhouse (use school)

• Shaft house

• Shed (general storage, hay, machinery, tack, coal, packing, etc.)

• Shop (blacksmith, carpentry, craft, machine, printing, etc.)

• Silo (cement, grain, missile)

• Siphon

• Slaughterhouse

• Smelter

• Smokehouse

• Spring house

• Stable

• Still (use distillery)

• Stockyard

• Storage building (use shed)

• Storehouse (use warehouse)

• Supply house (use warehouse)

• Sweat lodge

• Tank (leaching, fuel, water, tipple)

• Tram house

• Tram terminal (use tram house)

• Tree house

• Tree platform

• Trestle

• Vat (chemical, treatment)

• Wall

• Warehouse

• Water diversion (use dam or head gate)

• Water tank

• Water tower

• Well (standing walls)

• Wickiup

• Windmill

• Workshop (use shop)