Examples:

Bethania NHL, North Carolina: Archeology contributes to Criterion 1; The property is not eligible under Criterion 6: The town of Bethania , as originally laid out in 1759, consisted of twenty-four residential lots surrounded by an integrated and extensive system of " outlots ." The property is nationally significant because it illustrates the agricultural patterns of a rare example of a German, "open field" agricultural village. It is nationally significant as an example of a Moravian landscape and community planning and development and is the sole example of an above ground open field agricultural village in the six colonial Moravian Town Lots. Much archeological survey and some archeological excavation have been done in Bethania , but not enough to define national significance. No national context on Moravian archeology has been developed and much of the archeological survey performed was basic recording of archeological features that was essential for defining the historic residential and outlot areas of the landscape. At the time of nomination, not enough was known about the archeology to claim major scientific importance or provide enough information about a major theme in American history and thus, the property was not nominated under NHL Criterion 6 . However, the recorded archeological features – stone fences, millraces, foundations of houses and barns and information about the town layout - did contribute significantly to understanding the Moravian landscape. In this case, the archeology did contribute to Criterion 1 for exemplifying the landscape – the reason that the property was nationally significant. The archeological resources here are considered contributing resources to the NHL.

Example: Rosedown Plantation NHL, Louisiana, Archeology is important for understanding the history of the property and its significance, but it is not nationally significant under any of the Criteria: Rosedown Plantation is nationally significant in the areas of landscape architecture and architecture. The designed landscapes of the Southern plantation represent an important chapter in the history of design in America and Rosedown is particularly important as a tout ensemble to convey the appearance (to "tell the story") of the antebellum plantation domestic landscape at its apex. Archeological resources have been located at Rosedown that represent the working side of the plantation: the cotton agriculture and the enslaved people from Africa who made it all possible (everything from the plantation crops to the smooth running of the house to the growing of the garden and designed landscape described in the nomination). Since 2004, several areas within the property have been found to contain significant archeological resources associated with enslaved Africans living and working at Rosedown . Additionally, research in historical archeology has shown that plantation laborers, most often enslaved African Americans, can be considered “authors” of such gardens since they were the main workforce growing and maintaining them. Though Rosedown's pleasure gardens are planned gardens that seem strictly formal in their design and layout, based on current archeological research, it seems unlikely that the enslaved African workforce did not infuse their own philosophy into their creation, perhaps in unobtrusive ways, or merely unrecognized by the European American observer. This issue and others associated with African reflections on plantation landscapes as well as those related to African-American life and culture, are ripe for exploration at Rosedown in the future when further archeological investigations can be done.

Rosedown Plantation, LA: Rosedown Plantation is nationally significant in the areas of landscape architecture and architecture. The designed landscapes of the Southern plantation represent an important chapter in the history of design in America, and Rosedown's gardens, in and of themselves, are nationally significant in this respect – for their size, sophistication and overall integrity. Designed landscapes of the size and sophistication of Rosedown were in a small minority across the plantation South, and for such a fragile entity to survive with so much of its character intact is nothing short of remarkable. Rosedown, with its imposing main house, enables one to appreciate first-hand the domestic world of the South's wealthiest planters, a world made possible by enslaved African labor. While Rosedown was not nominated for its archeological significance, a nomination of this type should include a discussion of the archeology conducted at this site.

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