Garden City, Kansas, Cultural Resources Field and Records Assessment.
Abstract
An inventory of cultural resources and culture history for the Garden City locality, Finney County, Kansas, was complied for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District. Alluviation by the Arkansas River in Finney County and modern irrigation practices have apparently covered by any possible existing cultural resources. One archaeological site (14FY301), within the primary impact zone has probably already been destroyed by recent land modifications. Local private artifact collections contain artifacts indicative of Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Plains Woodland, Central Plains/Panhandle, Dismal River, and Historic aboriginal cultures. Sand pit operationa have regularly encountered extinct late Pleistocene faunal remains from buried deposits in the floodplain. Garden City presently encompasses one site (Windsor Hotel) on the National Register of Historic Places, eighteen buildings on the Register of Historic Kansas Places (16 still standing), eleven other buildings of potential historic significance, and six markers of historic sites (including the now-obliterated Santa Fe Trail). Recommendations are made for a complete historical study of Garden City, subsurface testing along levee alignments, monitoring of excavations for project constructions and of sand pit operations for potential buried cultural resources, and for cataloging the documented portions of private artifact collections.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA127167
Entities
People
- Arthur H. Rohn
- Barbara A. Blair
- Martha P. Houston
Organizations
- Wichita State University