Martha W. McCartney is an American research historian and writer.

Biography

McCartney is a

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graduate. She worked for thirteen years at the Virginia Research Center for Archaeology, researching and excavating archaeological sites in

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. Since 1986 she has worked as an independent historian. She is also a consultant for the

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and was project historian for the five-year Jamestown Archaeological Assessment conducted by the

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. Her books include ''James City County: Keystone of the Commonwealth'' (1997), ''The History of Green Spring Plantation'' (1998), ''The Free Black Community at Centerville'' (2000), ''Jamestown: An American Legacy'' (2001), which won the 2004 National Park Service Excellence in Interpretive Media award in the Cultural Book Category, ''With Reverence for the Past: Gloucester County, Virginia'' (2001), ''Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607–1635: A Biographical Dictionary'' (2007), ''Jordan's Point, Virginia: Archaeology in Perspective, Prehistoric to Modern Times'' (2011), and ''Mathews County, Virginia: Lost Landscapes, Untold Stories'' (2015). McCartney has won historic preservation awards, including a National History Award from the

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in 2001.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCartney, Martha W. 21st-century American historians Writers from Virginia Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Historians of the Thirteen Colonies College of William & Mary alumni American women historians 21st-century American women