Thanks are due to the people and institutions who funded and supported this project. A portion of these investigations were made possible by a cost-share agreement between the Arkansas Archeological Survey, the Little Rock District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. A great debt is owed certain individuals who negotiated this agreement and navigated the many pitfalls that occur anytime multiple state and federal agencies engage in a joint endeavor. Christopher Davies, Dr. Thomas J. Green, Steve Chryrchel, Mark Clippinger, Dr. George Sabo III, Dr. Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., Sean Harper and many others were all instrumental to the process. Listed below are the institutions who gave major support to the Van Winkle's Mill Archeological Project.

	Arkansas State Parks initiated project in 1997, paid for the production of the 2000 Van Winkle mapping and testing report, participated in the 2000-2003 cost-share project, provided logistical support for the 2001 archeological field school, and funded the write-up of the 2005 archeological field school.
	USCOE-SWL participated in the 2000-2003 cost-share project. This included funding consultations with an industrial archeologist, the survey of COE portion of the hollow, and test excavations on features near COE boundaries.
	Arkansas Archeological Survey provided monetary and logistical support, donated the time of the UAF Station and Assistant Archeologists and participated in the 2000-2003 cost-share project.
	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville' s Department of Anthropology conducted and supported the 2001 archeological field school and the 2005 field school in industrial and historical archaeology and provided student volunteers for excavations in 1999, 2000, 2003 & 2005.
	University of Texas at Austin granted a 2000 Liberal Arts Fellowship enabling Jamie Brandon and James Davidson to direct that year's work, and provided laboratory space for artifact analysis & other logistical support.
	Michigan Technological University's program in Industrial Heritage and Archeology provided invaluable consultations on the industrial portion of the Van Winkle's Mill site.

Project Personnel

Jamie Brandon and James Davidson--along with UAF Station Assistant Archeologist Jerry Hilliard--directed the excavations described on this web site from 1997 until 2003. Brandon and Davidson followed this project from their graduate careers at the University of Arkansas, employment with the Arkansas Archeological Survey and further graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin.

Alicia Valentino joined the Van Winkle's Mill Archeological Project in 2004 and directed the 2005 University of Arkansas field school in industrial and historical archaeology and Fall 2005 excavations which involved excavation in the industrial sector of the site--the blacksmith shop (Feature 31) and further investigations in the mill complex area.

A large debt is owed to Jerry Hilliard, who elsewhere we have called "the guiding spirit" behind the Van Winkle's Mill project. Jerry not only initiated the Van Winkle's Mill Archeological Project in 1997, he has always supported and actively aided the archaeological investigations.

We would also like to thank Marilyn Larner Hicks and the many other Van Winkle descendants. We would like to thank Ms. Hicks not only for her excellent work on the Van Winkle family history, but also for her kind words and support of the project. We hope that our relationship with the descendant community continues in future investigations.

We would like to acknowledge Jami Lockhart (Director of the AAS Computer Services Program) for conducting extensive geophysical explorations at Van Winkle's Mill on multiple occasions and Jared Pebworth and Mike Evans (AAS Sponsored Research Program archeologists) for their efforts at mapping and assisting with the archeo-geophysical investigations.

Thanks to Dr. Kenneth Kvamme and his spring 2005 Archeological Prospecting & Remote Sensing class (ANTH 4633) for conducting extensive archeo-geophysical investigations at Feature 1 (the raised garden).

Thanks also go to Dr. Patrick Martin of Michigan Technological University who lent us his expertise in industrial archeology on two separate occasions (2000 and 2001), and to Elizabeth Norris of the University of Massachusetts Amherst who helped us out with industrial sector excavations in the fall of 2005.

Thanks to all those students, AAS employees, Arkansas Archeological Society members and other volunteers who helped out during the various excavations 1997-2005:

Apologies to those who we may have forgotten to include here.

2005 U of A field school in industrial & historical archaeology
who excavated the entire footprint of the blacksmith shop.

2003 Spring Break Dig crew who worked at the
blacksmith shop and the mill complex.

2001 University of Arkansas archeological field school
at the mill with Pat Martin (MTU).

Field crew at the 2000 Spring Break excavations continuing at Feature 9.

Some of the field crew at the 1999 Spring Break excavations at Feature 9.

Web Site Credits

This web site was designed, maintained and hosted by Jamie Brandon, Alicia Valentino and Project Past. The first version of this site made its appearance in 2000 in order to advertise the 2001 University of Arkansas field school. It has since had three major design/content changes and a period of inactivity (2002-2004) while Jamie Brandon worked on his dissertation on the Van Winkle materials. All content on this site is drawn from Brandon 2004, Brandon and Davidson 2005, and Brandon and Davidson 2003, with the exceptions of the industrial archeology research theme section which is drawn from Bowers 2003 (with contributions from Alicia Valentino and Jamie Brandon) and sections detailing the 2005 U of A field school in industrial and historical archaeology written by Alicia Valentino.

Any comments, questions and broken links can be sent here.