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Archeological and ethnohistorical information on specific sites in SACA shows that a large proportion of sites were reused. The comparison of archeological and ethnohistorical data on particular sites shows that many features are difficult to identify after years of abandonment, salvage, and erosion. These processes of site formation clearly require archeologists to make the feature, rather than the site, the unit of field observation. Field methods were developed and tested for consistent recordation of features on historic sites. The Martin homestead, a 1930s homestead south of Fence Lake, was selected to test the field methodology. Recording methods and results, together with ethnohistorical data, are discussed.