Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the following people for their assistance during these investigations. Thank you to Margaret Harris Blair Toombs, and to Erubin Robeldo for their assistance during the field excavations. We are most grateful to Martha Zierden of the Charleston Museum for her advice in artifact analysis and sharing her experiences of project time management, and to Chad Long of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History for his amazing efficiency in turning back our interim summaries of the project, with detailed commentary and useful ideas. Finally, special thanks to Pepe and Cindy Hernandez for their warm hospitality and help with the project. We will also miss old Cooper, the friendly Dalmation dog who greeted us every morning.
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