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Levi Jordan Plantation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Levi Jordan Plantation Home Page

• Conversations about the Past
  • Mission Statement for LJPHS
  • Statement of Beliefs
  • Carol's Research proposal
  • Truth Claims and Conversations
• Words
• Archaeology Main Page
  • Description of Site
  • "Continuity: How do we know this?"

    Demography and Continuity at the Jordan Plantation

  • Architecture and Preservation: How do we know this?"
  • Shadows: How do we know this?
  • Method

    Brown and Cooper on Method

  • Abandonment

    Mary Barne's Paper

  • African Retentions and Symbolism
  • About all the Cabins (introduction)
  • Map of Entire site

    Map Quarters

    Map of House

  • Sharecropping and Tenancy
  • Dave Bruner
  • Curer's Cabin

    On the Curer's Cabin, by Ken Brown

    Kongo Cosmogram

    Thompson on the amula

  • "Political Leader's Cabin"
  • Munitions Maker's Cabin

    Jorge Garcia-Herreros SHA paper

    Jorge Garcia-Herreros,Thesis

  • Kris Brown's SHA 98 paper
  • Maria Franklin

    Robert Harris SHA Paper

    Grace Methodist Church

  • Ken's Interview
  • Doreen Cooper

    Doreen's paper

  • Robert N. Harris

    5S/55W, Sum of Quantities

    5S/55W, Sum of Type

    Tools in the Carver's Cabin associated with carving (drawing)

    Notes from Excavation

  • Jorge Garcia-Herreros
  • Mary Barnes
  • Mary Lynne Hill

    Mary Lynne Hill's thesis

  • Rebecca Barrera
• History Main Page
  • History, by Ken
  • Past as Present in Brazoria, Texas"
  • Diaries
  • Diary excerpts

    Diaries by other southern women

  • Cheryl Wright, History of Brazoria
  • African American residents of the plantation

    Isaac Holmes Descendants

    George Holmes Descendants

  • families with African connections
  • Dorothy's Family History
  • Cheryl Wright, Church Histories
  • RF Martin letter to Arch McNeill
  • Why this site is important to history, and comments on sharecropping, by Ken Brown

    Why site is important, more of Ken's comments

  • Ewing Martin
  • Flash of the Spirit
  • Robert Martin
  • Hester Holmes
• Ethnography Main Page
  • Artifact categories
• Community, Main Page
  • Cassie Johnson
  • Brazoria Men and Women of Action
• Media, Main Page
• Archaeology and the Internet
• Feedback Form
• Questionnaire #1
• Questionnaire #2
• Participants in this Project
  • Ginny McNeill Raska
  • Hazel Austin
  • Dorothy Cotton
  • Morris Richardson
  • Julia Mack
  • Sarah Martin
  • Kris Brown
  • Long Range Plan for LJPHS
• Who lived there
  • Jordan Genealogy
  • Johnson Family
  • Mack Family Partial Genealogy
  • Holmes Family Genealogies
  • Using Slave Schedules, by Spencer McCall
• About the Levi Jordan Plantation Historical Society
  • JOIN THE SOCIETY
• Kids, Main page
  • Cheryl Wright; oral histories
  • How to do Oral Histories
• Photo Gallery
  • Photos of artifacts found in curer's cabin

    15big.

    17big

    Kettle bases and chalk

    Chalk and Bullet casing

    Pentagram Button

    curer's cabin with buried kettle

    Porcelain Doll

  • Photos of artifacts found in carver's cabin

    Stone larger image

    oracle picture

    cameo

  • Photos of artifacts found in "political leader's" cabin

    Brick

    Claw

  • Photos of artifacts found in munitions maker's cabin
  • Photos of artifacts found in the praise house
  • Photos of the plantation house
  • Photos of people in the past

    Martin Boys

    Hester Holmes picture

  • Levi Jordan picture
  • Sarah Jordan Picture
  • Emily McNeill picture
  • Annie Martin picture
• Maps
  • Site Map list
  • Dave' Bruner's Paper
• Bibliography
• Definitions
• Links
• Search, Main Page
• Table of contents
• Carol McDavid
  • Carol McDavid, SHA 98 paper
  • Pragmatism paper
• Shell and Bone Carver's Cabin
  • Ken Brown on Shell carver cabin
  • Robert Harris Interview
  • internal" and" external" economies
  • Why is this site important to study of African-American culture?
• UPCOMING EVENTS
• How to get involved
• Kenneth L.Brown,Ph.D.
  • On tenants after abandonment, from Ken Brown Interview
  • On the original slaves, from Ken Brown Interview
  • On Curer, from Ken Brown Interview
  • On the Praise House/Church
  • On Robert Furniss Martin, from Ken Brown Interview
  • On the diary, from Ken Brown Interview
  • Claiborne Holmes Descendants
• Cheryl Wright
  • Cheryl Wright Thesis Introduction
  • Cheryl Wright: Transcript of Meeting with Descendants
• Family Names in Brazoria
  • Johnson family genealogy
• Home Page