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- 1. OHM: Doing History SOTM US 2023 Richard Welty
- 2. The Nature of History • Information starts being lost as soon as an event happens • Memory is unreliable • Records are disorganized or not even kept • Some deliberately choose to mis-remember • If you don’t like the narrative, rewrite it
- 3. Mer De Quest
- 4. Mer De Quest • Buache's map of America (1745 edition) • Conjectured after Martin Aguilar found the mouth of a large river in 1602-3 • Based on rumors and assumptions • Appeared on maps through the late 1700s
- 9. Reach out to the Community • The historians and archeologists, in addition to the mappers • They won’t necessarily go directly to your speci fi c interests, but may well inform your own e ff orts
- 10. Fort Orange • Dutch forti fi cation & trading post where Albany waterfront is located today • Site is buried under modern construction • I 787 & CSX railroad tracks • Archeological dig done shortly before I 787 construction reached it
- 11. Fort Orange • The archeologist who led the dig (now retired) sent me a copy of his report including a map • Was able to place Fort Orange in OHM fairly accurately • Probably could have gotten the info from the New York State Education Department • Other archeology done in Albany for periods of Dutch and English rule
- 12. Fort Orange
- 13. Lake George • Between Hudson River and Lake Champlain • French & Indian War period • Battle of Lake George • Fort George • Fort William Henry • Landforms have changed
- 14. Lake George
- 15. Lake George • Mark Silo, a volunteer guide at the Lake George Battle fi eld Park, set out to fi gure out how to match the maps • A lot of footwork • But also examination of older maps • https://lakegeorgebattle fi eld.org/wp-content/ uploads/2023/02/newsletter-Winter-2023- MSilo-full-online.pdf
- 16. Antietam • Cope Maps • ca 1900 • Army Corp of Engineers • rather precise • troop locations supplied by Ezra Carmen
- 17. Antietam - Cope
- 18. Antietam • Elliot Burial Map • 1864 • apparently annotations on an existing map • existing map not as precise as it looks