Reports, Theses and Dissertations Generated by this Project

Bowers, Robin F.

2003    Ozark Industry: The Van Winkle Saw Mill, 1857-1890.  Unpublished Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. [pdf 2.2MB]

Brandon, Jamie C.

2004    Van Winkle's Mill: Mountain Modernity, Cultural Memory and Historical Archaeology in the Arkansas Ozarks. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. [pdf 13.3MB]

2004    Segregating Households, Reconstructing Domesticity: The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Postbellum South.  In Household Chores and Household Choices: Theorizing the Domestic Sphere in Historical Archaeology, Kerri S. Barrile, Jamie C. Brandon (eds.).  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

2006 (in press)    The Archeology of Van Winkle’s Mill: A Nineteenth Century Saw Mill Community in the Northwest Arkansas Ozarks.  Arkansas Archeological Research Series, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Brandon, Jamie C. and James M. Davidson

2003    Archeological Inventory and Testing of Cultural Resources at Van Winkle’s Mill (3BE413) and Little Clifty Creek Shelter (3BE412), Beaver Lake, Benton County, Arkansas.  Report to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District, Little Rock, from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas. [pdf 2.7MB]

2005    The Landscape of Van Winkle’s Mill: Identity, Myth and Modernity in the Ozark Upland South.  Historical Archaeology 39(3):113-131. [pdf 499KB]

Brandon, Jamie C. and Jerry Hilliard

1998    The Van Winkle Mill and the Anderson Slave Cemetery: African-American Related Sites in Northwest Arkansas. African-American Archaeology 22:1. [html]

Brandon, Jamie C., Jerry E. Hilliard and James M. Davidson

1999    Return to Van Hollow: 1999 Excavations at a 19^th Century Mill-Worker’s Residence. Field Notes 282:10-12.

Brandon, Jamie C., James M. Davidson and Jerry E. Hilliard

2000    Preliminary Archeological Investigations at Van Winkle’s Mill (3BE413), Beaver Lake State Park, Benton County, Arkansas, 1997-1999. Report to Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Little Rock, from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas. [pdf 1.7MB]

Tennant, Edward W.

2003    Magnetic Fractioning: Remote Sensing with Percentages Inferring Work Areas within an 19th Century Blacksmith Shop.  Unpublished honors thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Valentino, Alicia B. and Jamie C. Brandon

2005 Van Winkle's Mill Update: 2005 Excavations at the Blacksmith Shop. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, September, 2005 (on-line publication). [html]

Valentino, Alicia B.

2006 Preliminary Report: Van Winkle Blacksmith Shop Excavations, 2005. Report to Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Little Rock, from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas. [pdf 1.57MB]

Valentino, Alicia B.

2006 Preliminary Report: Van Winkle Mill Complex Excavations, 2005. Report to Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Little Rock, from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas. [pdf 1.65MB]

Valentino, Alicia B. with contributions by Jamie C. Brandon and Jami J. Lockhart
2006 Archeological Excavation and Testing at Van Winkle's Mill (3BE413), Hobbs State Park and Conservation Area, Benton County, Arkansas. Final report to Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Little Rock, from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas. High resoultion [pdf 7.87MB] or smaller black and white scan [pdf 1.77MB]

References Cited on this Website & Other Van Winkle's Mill-Related Works

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1998    The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War.  John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland

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2001    Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, DC.

Ballard, George

1928    Ozark “Ballards” of a Negro Singer Being a Collection of Verse by George Ballard, Lay-poet of the Ozarks, Written as Comment on the Common Current Events and Passing Seasons by One a Little Less Inarticulate than the Majority of His Race and Who Finds His Greatest Pleasures in and Best Self-expression Through Rhyme and Meter.  Democrat Publishing and Printing Co., Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Battershell, Gary

1999    The Socioeconomic Role of Slavery in the Arkansas Upcountry.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58(1):45-60.

Black, J. Dickson

1975    History of Benton County: 1836-1936.  International Graphics, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Blight, David W.

2001    Race and Reunion : The Civil War in American Memory. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Blevins, Brooks

2002    Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image.  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Bolster, Mel H.

1951    The Mountain Mind: A Study of Backwoods Americans from 1908 to 1940.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 10(4):307-327.

Bolton, S. Charles

1999    Slavery and the Defining of Arkansas.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58(1)1-23.

Burnett, Abby

2000    When the Presbyterians Came to Kingston: Kingston Community Church, 1917-1951.  Bradshaw Mountain Publishers, Kingston, Arkansas.

Cande, Kathleen H.

1992    The Ozarks as Destination: Data Recovery Excavations at the Lambert Farmstead, Mountainburg, Arkansas. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.

1995    The Ozarks as Destination: Phase II Archeological Investigations at the Lamberts Farmstead (3CW674) and Phase II Testing at the Dement Farmstead and Cemetery (3CW685), Crawford County, Arkansas. . Report to Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, Little Rock, from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Cantrell, Andrea

2004    WPA Sources for African-American Oral History in Arkansas: Ex-Salve Narratives and Early Settler’ Personal Histories.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 63(1):44-67.

Catalfamo-Serio, Chris

1979    The Effect of the Civil War on Ozark Culture. Cavanaugh, Prairie Grove, Arkansas.

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1944    Slavery in Arkansas, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 3(1):67-90.

Cochran, Robert

1985    Vance Randolph: An Ozark Life.  University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois.

Conable, E. W.

1903    The Old Van Winkle Home.  The Path-Finder.  Pathfinder, Roswell, Colorado.  Periodical on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Davis, Hester A. (editor)

1995    An Overview of Late Historic Domestic Sites in Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, H. A. Davis (ed.). Report.  Arkansas Archeological Survey.  Submitted to the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Russellville, Arkansas.

DeBlack, Thomas A.

2002a  Prosperity and Peril: Arkansas in the Late Antebellum Period.  In Arkansas: A Narrative History, Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo and Morris S. Arnold (editors), pp. 135-165.  University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

2002b  “Between the Hawk and the Buzzard”: The Civil War in Arkansas.  In Arkansas: A Narrative History, Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo and Morris S. Arnold (editors), pp. 166-204.  University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Delle, James A., Stephen A. Mrozowski, and Robert Paynter (editors)

2000    Lines that Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class and Gender.  University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Dew, Charles B.

1994    Bond of Iron: Master and Slave At Buffalo Forge. W. W. Norton and Company, New York, New York.

Dew, Lee A.

1980    “On a Slow Train through Arkansaw”¾The Negative Image of Arkansas in the Early Twentieth Century.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 39(2):125-135.

Donat, Pat

1995    The Van Winkle Hotel: A Fayetteville Showplace When it Opened in 1880.  Flashback 45(2): 9-23.

Doolin, James

1980    Conditions of Slavery in Washington County, Flashback 5(8):30-34.

DeLyser, Dydia

2001    When Less is More: Absence and Landscape in a California Ghost Town.  In Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies, edited by Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till, pp. 24-40.  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Edminsten, Bob

1969    Famed Van Winkle Home Bows to Prgress.  The Springdale News, February, 4 1969.

Edwards-Ingram, Ywone

2001    African American Medicine and the Social Relations of Slavery.  In Race and the Archaeology of Identity, Charles Orser (editor), pp. 34-53.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Elliott, B. H.

1959    Story of a Sawmill King.  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, August 2, 1959.

Fayetteville Democrat (newspaper, on microfilm Mullins Library, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas).

Fayetteville Sentinel (newspaper, on microfilm Mullins Library, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas).

Froelich, Jacqueline

1997    Eureka Springs in Black and White: The Lost History of an African-American Neighborhood.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56(2):158-179.

Froelich, Jacueline and David Zimmermann

1999    Total Eclipse: The Destruction of the African American Community of Harrison, Arkansas, in 1905 and 1909.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58(2):131-159.

Funk, Erwin

1962    Flywheel of Van Winkle Sawmill Sold to Junk Man.  Benton County Pioneer 7(5):7-9

Gerlach, Russel L.

1976    Immigrants in the Ozarks: A Study in Ethnic Geography.  University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri.

Goodspeed Publishing Company

1889    Goodspeed’s History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.  Goodspeed Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hargus, Janet

2003    Evaluation of Van Winkle Program.  Report submitted to the Arkansas Humanities Council from the Rogers Historical Museum, Rogers, Arkansas.

Harkins, Anthony A. R.

2004    Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon.  Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.

Hicks, Marilyn Larner

1990    Peter Marseilles Van Winkle (1814-1882): His Life and Times, His Ancestors Back to the 16^th Century and Most of His Descendants. Henington Publishing, Wolfe City, Texas.

Hilliard, Jerry E.

1983    The Political-Social Elite in the Development of a Frontier Territorial Town: Fayetteville, Arkansas.  Paper presented at the 16^th annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.

1997    A Brief Look at One of Northwest Arkansas’ Largest Sawmills: The Van Winkle Site, 3BE413.  Field Notes 279:10-12.

1998    Historical and Archaeological Account of the Anderson Salve Cemetery (3BE625), Benton County, Arkansas.  Report submitted to Scott Van Landingham, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority by the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Hughes, Michael A.

2000    Wartime Gristmill Destruction in Northwest Arkansas and Military Farm Colonies.  In Civil War Arkansas: Beyond Battles and Leaders, Anne J. Bailey and Daniel E. Sutherland (editors), pp. 31-45.  University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Johnson, Martha Sherwood

1963    Bertha Blackburn Yeager Recounts The Van Winkle Home.  Benton County Pioneer 8(2):33-34. Bentonville, Arkansas.

Jurgelski, Willaim M., Kathleen H. Cande and George Sabo III

1996    Farms in the Forest: A Study of Late Historic Domestic Sites on the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests, Arkansas.  Report, Project 958.  Arkansas Archeological Survey.  Submitted to the USDA Forest Service, Russellville, Arkansas.

Miller, Dorothy

1966    For Vernon T. West: Log Business in His Blood.  Oklahoma Ranch and Farm World, March 18, 1966.

Miller, Jay and Ken Eastin

1984    Master Plan: Hobbs State Management Area.  Report to the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Mintz, John J. and Jerry E. Hilliard

1992    Slavery in Ozarkia: A Preliminary Assessment.  Paper presented at the 57^th annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Mitchell, Dorothy

1969    The Van Winkle Heritage at War Eagle.  Ozark Mountaineer, October, 1969.

Moneyhon, Carl H.

1994    The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas: Persistence in the Midst of Ruin. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1996    The Creators of the New South in Arkansas: Industrial Boosterism, 1875-1885.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 55(4):383-409.

2002    The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas: Persistence in the Midst of Ruin.  University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Morgan, Gordon D.

1973    Black Hillbillies of the Arkansas Ozarks.  A Report of the Department of Sociology, University of Arkansas to the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, New York.

Morrow, Lynn and Linda Myers-Phinney

1999    Shepard of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 1880s-1930s.  University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Myers-Phinney, Linda

1990    Arcadia in the Ozarks: The Beginnings of Tourism in Missouri's White River Country.  Ozarks Watch 5(3):6-11

Neal, Joe

1977    George Ballard of Fayetteville: Remembering an Arkansas Poet.  The Grapevine 8(26):6.

Otto, John S.

1980    Slavery in the Mountains: Yell County, Arkansas 1840-1860. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 39(1):35-52.

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2004  History Enriches Natural Beauty at Beaver Lake State Park.  Citiscapes Metro Monthly 4(5):41-42.

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[1978] 1990 The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People Societies and Institutions 1775-1850. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, Massachusetts.

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Rogers Historical Museum

2003    The Van Winkle Program.  Program announcement on file Rogers Historical Museum, Rogers, Arkansas.

Rose, F. P.

1953    Van Winkle Mill Did Yeoman Duty, Pioneer Maker of Lumber in Western Ozarks.  The Ozarks Mountaineer, November, 1953.

Rothrock, Thomas

1973    Peter Manelis Van Winkle. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 32:61-70.

Scott, E.

1962    Peter Van Winkle.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 21(2):170-172

Smith, Ted J.

1995    Slavery in Washington County, Arkansas, 1828-1860.  Unpublished Master’s thesis, Department of History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

1999    Mastering Farm and Family: David Walker as Slaveholder.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58(1):61-79.

Snelling, Louis

1973    Coin Harvey: Prophet of Monte Ne. S of O Press, Point Lookout, Missouri.

Steele, Phillip W. and Steve Cottrell

1993    Civil War in the Ozarks.  Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, Louisiana.

Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C.

1986    The Moser Farmstead, Independent But Not Isolated: The Archeology of a Late Nineteenth Century Ozark Farmstead. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 26. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

1987    From Memories and From the Ground: Historical Archaeology at the Moser Farmstead in the Arkansas Ozarks. In Visions and Revisions: Ethnohistoric Perspectives on Southern Cultures, Sabo and Schneider (editors), pp. 98-113.  University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia.

1992    Industrial Goods in the Service of Tradition: Consumption and Cognition on an Ozark Farmstead Before the Great War. In The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in Honor of James Deetz, Ann Yentsch and Mary Beaudry (editors). CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

1999    From Famous Forts to Forgotten Farmsteads: Historical Archaeology in the Mid-South. In Arkansas Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Dan and Phyllis Morse, Robert C. Mainfort and Marvin Jeter (editors), pp. 225-244. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

2004    Separate Kitchens and Intimate Archaeology: Constructing Urban Slavery on the Antebellum Cotton Frontier in Washington, Arkansas. In Household Chores, Household Choices: Theorizing the Domestic Sphere in Historical Archaeology, Kerri S. Barile and Jamie C. Brandon (editors), pp. 51-74.  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Zorn, Roman

1957    An Arkansas Fugitive Slave Incident and its International Repercussions.  Arkansas Historical Quarterly 16(2):139-149.