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Few sources before have dealt with the archaeology of African American settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states. This book describes in detail the archaeological investigations conducted at the town site of Buxton, Iowa, a coal mining community inhabited by a significantly large population of blacks between 1900 and 1925. David Gradwohl and Nancy Osborn present the archaeology of Buxton from the ground up

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20) Exploring buried Buxton: archaeology of an abandoned Iowa coal mining town with a large black population / David M. Gradwohl & Nancy M. Osborn

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