This fall the Kadohadacho Chapter of the AAS will be returning to the site of Dooley’s Ferry (3HE14) on the Red River in southern Hempstead County to conduct excavations over three long weekends—September 13‐15; October 11‐13; and November 15‐17, 2012. These excavations will follow up on our remote sensing and test excavation work last spring.
Dooley’s Ferry was an important crossing on the Red River from the 1820s through the 1930s and was an important feature of the militarized landscape of the Trans‐Mississippi Theater of the Civil War. Archeological excavations here offer a unique
opportunity to study the flow of goods and people engaged in local, regional, and global markets into and out of what was a remote corner of the South in a time of great disruption to the patterns of everyday antebellum life.
Carl Carlson‐Drexler, will be leading excavations (along with Dr. Brandon). Carl has conducted fieldwork at the site on and off since 2008—including a couple weeks of work during the 2010 University of Arkansas Archeological Field School.
Volunteers are welcome, but contact Carl Carlson‐Drexler in advance at 870‐235‐4230 or cdrexler@uark.edu and we’ll give you directions and times that we will be working.
