Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	McKinnon, Jennifer Faith
Author's Email Address	jfm3748@fsu.edu
URN	etd-07122010-095845
Title	The Archaeology of Florida's US Life-Saving Service Houses of Refuge and Life-Saving Stations
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Anthropology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Rochell Marrinan Committee Chair Glen Doran Committee Member Lynn Schepartz Committee Member James Jones University Representative
Keywords	Life-Saving House of Refuge Historical Archaeology Maritime Archaeology Liminal US Life-Saving Service
Date of Defense	2010-05-23
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract From 1875 to 1886 a total of ten houses of refuge and two life-saving stations were constructed along Florida’s shoreline as part of the US Life-Saving Service system. One life-saving station was located on the west coast near Pensacola while the others were on the east coast from south of Matanzas Inlet to Biscayne Bay. These houses and stations and the families who lived in them serviced the Florida coastline for forty years by providing rescues and assistance to those traveling by water and land. This research explores houses of refuge and life-saving stations along the Florida coastline during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by documenting and comparing the material culture assemblages, associated landscapes and seascapes and historical documents of individual houses and stations both within context and to each other. It yields information about daily life and practices at these houses and stations, considers how these stations were viewed as part of the natural and built environment and documents how the participants fit within the local and the broader economic and social landscape and seascape of nineteenth and twentieth century Florida. This research reviews the anthropological concept “liminal” and applies it to the house of refuge and life-saving station sites in an attempt to explore the multiple layers of activities and life at these houses and stations. Florida’s houses of refuge and stations are explored as liminal places through both their physical location within the landscape and seascape and the activities and people living within the structures.
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