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Among the six newly recorded sites in Bay St. Louis were post-Colonial historic sites with remains ranging from domestic artifacts associated with day-to-day life to industrial materials related to blacksmithing and the early timber industry. Archaeologists found intact historic midden deposits and features overlain by modem development at one newly discoy&ed site. Materials recovered from this site span the 19th and early 20th centuries and ar.eassoei&ted with a residential/medical building as well as its related outbuildings such as the kitchen. This site was recommended as eligible to the NRHP.	//\	\
Historic Bottle Bases from Site in Hancock County (FEMA photos 2012).
Another newly recorded site was associated with the principal builder of early historic structures and reportedly, the architect of Bay,St. Louis’ first citywide water system built in the late 19th ■'..century. Of special interest, archaeologists recovered several artifacts likely related to this water transport system. The site was recommended to be potentially eligible for inclusion on the NRHP as evidence of one of the earliest public water systems in the region. Two of the newly recorded sites in Bay St. Louis were deemed ineligible to the NRHP and because of limited access, two other new Sites remained unevaluated.
As noted, archaeologists revisited three previously recorded sites during fieldwork in Bay St. Louis. One of the revisited sites contained prehistoric deposits from the early to late Woodland period in the form of a large village and mound site occupied between 100 BC and AD 800. Archaeologists determined that despite impacts from Hurricane Katrina and subsequent debris removal missions, intact deposits still exist at the site and therefore it remained eligible to the
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