The Iowa State University Archaeological Laboratory (ISUAL) has been participating in archaeological programs with the Iowa 4-H Youth and Development Program since 1995 at the Iowa 4-H Center. This study focuses on the historic archaeology at the Iowa 4-H Center. The need for an examination of the historic archaeology and Euro-American settlements at the Iowa 4-H Center is purposeful for the following reasons: 1) there does not exist any detailed written account of the people living within the property now maintained by the Iowa 4-H Center; 2) there is no interpretative analysis of the recovered artifacts from the Iowa 4-H Center; 3) people now living around the vicinity of the Iowa 4-H Center may provide vital information of the activities and names of the people who once lived within the Iowa 4-H Center; and 4) this work will complete another chapter of the Iowa State University Department of Anthropology's involvement with the on-going education and participation in public archaeology at the Iowa 4-H Center. This project is also intended as an introduction for future ISUAL personnel and other archaeological investigators interested in Boone County, Iowa and the coal mining industries of Iowa. As coal mining was an important industry in Iowa during the late 19th century and early 20th century, this is the first archaeological attempt to document the rural coal miner's families, and to document lifeways of rural county residents.