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Jennifer Palmer
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Laser-Scanner Technology Helps Preserve a Historic Sugar Mill
Jennifer Palmer
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Issue Date: , Posted On: 8/4/2011
Laser-Scanner Technology Helps Preserve a Historic Sugar Mill
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By Greg Richards
Archaeologists and researchers from the University of South Florida (USF) Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies (AIST) are working with state officials to help protect, preserve and restore threatened Historic Sugar Mill ruins in Florida. These structures are associated with the 18th- and 19th-century Florida sugar industry, and they’re made from coquina and/or lime rock and mortars, each of which face special issues of deterioration from weathering of their exposed surfaces.
Previous restoration efforts used materials such as Portland cement to repair coquina and limestone structures, methods now known to cause structural concerns, such as cracking and fissuring of surface features. Developing new methods for examination, documentation and analysis of structural integrity as well as pinpointing areas for restoration and conservation is a statewide and national need for heritage management.
Goals
The objectives of this multi-year restoration project include the survey, documentation and analysis of the early history of the Florida sugar industry from its inception in the 1760s and its development through the late 1800s. The purpose is to preserve and promote the cultural, historic and architectural heritage engendered by the state’s sugar mills.
The larger project is designed to maximize participation of graduate students in history, architecture, archaeology and anthropology at the University of South Florida. The results will provide local, regional, and state planners and managers of Florida’s cultural heritage a variety of new data that can be used to conserve, restore and protect these non-renewable resources.
One sugar mill in particular, Dummett Mill, located in Ormond Beach, Fla., is an example for why preservation measures need to be planned quickly and accurately. After a brief spatial survey was documented, a structural collapse of the mill’s north wall was discovered by the team of researchers. AIST and park officials decided to salvage the wall before further damage could occur, but this project would require accurate 3-D CAD documentation for analysis before any physical restoration could begin.
Read more here.
Laser-Scanner Technology Helps Preserve a Historic Sugar Mill
Online Exclusive
By Greg Richards
Archaeologists and researchers from the University of South Florida (USF) Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies (AIST) are working with state officials to help protect, preserve and restore threatened Historic Sugar Mill ruins in Florida. These structures are associated with the 18th- and 19th-century Florida sugar industry, and they’re made from coquina and/or lime rock and mortars, each of which face special issues of deterioration from weathering of their exposed surfaces.
Previous restoration efforts used materials such as Portland cement to repair coquina and limestone structures, methods now known to cause structural concerns, such as cracking and fissuring of surface features. Developing new methods for examination, documentation and analysis of structural integrity as well as pinpointing areas for restoration and conservation is a statewide and national need for heritage management.
Goals
The objectives of this multi-year restoration project include the survey, documentation and analysis of the early history of the Florida sugar industry from its inception in the 1760s and its development through the late 1800s. The purpose is to preserve and promote the cultural, historic and architectural heritage engendered by the state’s sugar mills.
The larger project is designed to maximize participation of graduate students in history, architecture, archaeology and anthropology at the University of South Florida. The results will provide local, regional, and state planners and managers of Florida’s cultural heritage a variety of new data that can be used to conserve, restore and protect these non-renewable resources.
One sugar mill in particular, Dummett Mill, located in Ormond Beach, Fla., is an example for why preservation measures need to be planned quickly and accurately. After a brief spatial survey was documented, a structural collapse of the mill’s north wall was discovered by the team of researchers. AIST and park officials decided to salvage the wall before further damage could occur, but this project would require accurate 3-D CAD documentation for analysis before any physical restoration could begin.
Read more here.
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