Database of former slave dwellings in the united states. Her interdisciplinary work includes architectural documentation, photography, interpretation and preservation of slave history. Up next on american artifacts, we travel to southern virginia near the North Carolina border to visit the former Brandon Plantation with joe b. Hill and learn about her saving slave houses project. Shes joined by several archaeologists and preservationists and a team from trimble, incorporated who came along to document the plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. We are here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of a independent project that i am doing that is called saving slavehouses which is a database of all of the known slave houses in the united states. It is a repository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trimble, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highe
Project. She is joined by several archaeologists and preservationist, and team of tremble incorporated who came along to have a series of 3d laser scans. We are here the to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of a independent project that i am doing that is called saving slavehouses which is a database of all of the slavehouses in the united states. It is a acting as Central Depository of documentation and information about slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull which is the company that makes the survey equipment that i have used to do kind of the highest level of documentation that is available to us today which is 3d laser scanning. It is important the to do this, because one, documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape, and so by documenting that, that is one way of preserving them. And documenting them through my database is also a way to share in
First National Historic site to be dedicated to a first lady, and the only Historic Site dedicated to one first lady. Val kill encompasses two major buildings. The Stone Cottage was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors nancy cook and mary dickerman. It was land that fdr had purchased in 1911 to do forest ri experiment forestry on, but by the time 1940 came along, she was getting active in her own political life and she needed a place to have friends and associates and talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr said that the big house did not serve Eleanor Roosevelts purposes at all, and she used to say that for 40 years, she was a prisoner there, and so it is important for her to have her own space to really do things that she was interested in and not have to worry about whether or not her motherinlaw had to give her permission to do this or that, and her motherinlaws home. So this is her little space. The building that