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40 40 40 NPS Form 10.900-a M f"1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet oMa Approval No. 4024-MI8 Section number _,H_. Page 3 Indian River Narrows Cultural Resource District A number of studies have been conducted by archaeologists over the last several years on Orchid Island specifically, ar in Indian River County, which are applicable to the understanding of the sites cultural resources The most recent extensive study of Indian River County's archaeology is Dickel (1992), however, the first comprehensive study of the Indian River's regional importance in Florida archaeology was done by Rouse in the early 1950s (1950; 1981) and his work remains the foundation for later work in the area. A number of other smaller archaeological studies have been conducted on Orchid Island in recent years which are relevant to the history of the property. Wing (1978) has studied the dietary subsistence remains of the prehistoric and Spanish populations which were found at the McL,arty Site, IR -26, located near the north end of Orchid Island and has identified in detail the various animals used for food. Sigler -Lavelle, Russo and Westphal (1982) and Russo (1985) have studied the Zaremba Site, located along the high dune adjacent to the ocean beach within the Zaremba tract of what is now the Sea Oaks development. The Zaremba Site is a small, shallow oyster shell midden with other faunal remains and ceramics and has been identified as being from the Malabar II period (A.D, 800- 1304). Both Richard's and Dickel's recent field studies at the Snipes or South Hole Midden Site, IR -828, a large oyster shell midden at the northern intersection of Jungle Trail and State Road A]A (Richards 1990; Dickel 1992), indicate that it was a significant prehistoric settlement site. Also, an archaeological survey by Janus Research (1993) discovered no evidence of prehiscoric occupation on the Disney Vero Beach Resort development project area, though evidence of modern (20th century) structures were identified. Stanbridge (1995) compiled a history of the use of Jungle Trail and its development by pioneers and early residents since the late nineteenth century and Lewis and Stanbridge (1995) have conducted an assessment of nine archaeological sites located along the Jungle Trail. Kanaski (1997) has conducted archaeological fieldwork at U.S. Fish and Wildlife properties (the Surman and Kennedy tracts) along Jungle 'frail to assess the potential impact of public -use facilities slated for construction. Finally, Eck, Webster, and I:ewis have conducted more intensive archaeological testing and historical research on the Cairns (199), Kennedy (1998), and Surman (1998) tracts, also located along the Jungle Trail.