The Archaeology Channel

Ghosts of Green Bottom

Location: West Virginia

Length: 28 min

In this film, a team of archaeologists combines traditional research and modern technology to unveil a lost era in American history. The film examines fateful events leading to the destruction of the once-proud legacy of a loyal family of Confederate Virginians, spanning decades of the early nineteenth century across a fertile fringe of wilderness Western Virginia. With the help of about 80 slaves, their Southern-style plantation thrived. A century later, all that remained was the family home itself.

Directed by Daniel Boyd

Produced by Daniel Boyd and Mike Riley, Paradise Film Institute