Abstract
dc:description.abstractOld Town plantation has had a long and prosperous life. The property has been occupied historically for more than 200 hundred years. Christopher Fitzsimmons' purchased the property in 1809. Fitzsimmons' created a working plantation and an elaborate homestead at Old Town. It is his occupation that this research centers around. Excavations in 1994 revealed the foundation footings of his home, the associated springhouse and his ice house. This thesis is an in depth examination of ice houses around the world comparatively and how these structures relate to the ice house at Old Town.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts in Social Sciences (M.A.)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis (open access)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology
- Year dc:date.available
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Gillispie, Elizabeth A.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- H. Steven Hale
- Peggy Hargis
Subjects
dc:subject × 8Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/624
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1624