ML19330A129

Forwards Map Showing Archeological Sites Discovered in Surface Survey of Chippewa & Tittabawassee River Junctions, as Part of Proposed Flood Control Project Review Process

ML19330A129
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	07/14/1978
From:	Brunet F SAGINAW ARCHEOLOGICAL COMMISSION
To:	Curtis S ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY
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Dear Dr. Curtis:

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Howard Kundinger engfn,,rfn, of the Chippewa and Tittabawassee River prepared Fei v. erunett for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of Executive oirector the review process for a proposed flood control project that was considered for construction in the area.

The survey, while containing 53 sites,does not rule out other sites in the area since it was oriented to narrow river margin strips where dikes were to be built. Lower case "y" and "z" are the closest sites to the Midland Nuclear Power Plant site. To  ;

my knowledge, no systematic, professional survey to j inventory cultural resources was carried out on the plant site. It is unfortunate, since it is common knowledge in the area that sites existed there prior to plant construction start-up. After the footings for the reactors were poured, I was invited to visit

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the site with members of the Saginaw Valley Chapter l of the Michigan Archaeological Society. Even at -

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chios could be found in the area and some bone was ,

observed in one of the cuts near the Tittabawassee l River margin.

It is interesting that the site picked for the power plant contained both of the two most attractive features attracting settlement in the Saginaw Valley-an ancient lake margin (The Lake Lundy Beach) and the river levee of the Tittabawassee. This combination could have contained the full range of Great Lakes Prehistory! -

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Letter to Dr. Curtis - Page 2 14 July 1978 My first survey in the vicinity was carried out on the property of my employer at the time -

the Chippewa Nature Center - and resulted in the establishment of one of Michigan's first archaeological districts (The Oxbow Archaeological District). The second survey resulted in the nomination of the Little Forks District which has been found eligible for National Register statis. This area adjoins the first district and includes the Corps' diking areas. I am afraid that a third district has been destroyed because of failure to call for or carry out a proper cultural inventory survey.

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20 MD 9 - Windover Mound - a late Prehistoric and early Hist.oric Eurial area on the south bank of the Chippewa River C 20 MD 19

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- Late Archaic camp site on what appears to be ca island in the old Pine River channel D -

20 MD 20 - Archaic camp site on old Pine River =argin E -

20 MD'21 - Late Woodland-Historic Indian farming site F 20 KD 22

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- Multicomponent site on old beach ridge--Archaic and Woodland G -

20 MD 23a - Quartzite Site--probably Archaic H - 20 MD 23b - Multico=ponent Site - Archaic and Woodland

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- Archaic Site on bluff above Oxbow. Three burials are reported from bluff at high point just south of Oxbov channel L -

20 MD 34 - Multicomponent site - Archaic and Woodland M -

20 MD 33 - 1830-40 distoric Site N -

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20 MD 37 - Chipping Station on old Lake Lundy Beach Ridge P 20 MD 39

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" Stone-lined Pit" reported by E. Cornelius Q - 20 MD 40 - Sias Farm Site - Woodland and Archaic R -

20 MD 41 - Eurials, Features and Artifacts of Woodland time horizon S -

20 MD 43 - Large Mound, possibly Middle Woodland, apparently leveled.

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20 MD 49 - Burial Station for Late Woodland and Early Historic Indians

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20 MD 50 - Powerhouse Mound - Late Woodland and Early Historic Indian and White Cemetery.

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20 MD 51 - Location of 2 counds noted in 1830's Survey 5 -

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20'MD 54 - Bu' rial of what appears to be an 18th Century Jesuit Missionary .

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20 MD 55 - Reported burial area - stratified cultural material noted to 6' below surface in river bank f -

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20 MD 62 - Extensive Chipping Station - Main and Mcdonald Streets  !

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REC: CURTIS S A ORG: CRUNETT F V DOCDATE: 07/14/7S ARGONNE NATL LAB NONE DATE RCVD: 08/11/78 DOCTYPE: LETTER NOTARIZED: NO COPIES RECEIVED

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LTR 1 ENCL 1 FORWARDING MAP SHOLJING ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES DISCOVERED IN SURFACE SURVEY C.:

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