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This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster aims to discuss changing landscapes and the adaptations employed by the coastal community in a historic town on the Mullica River in New Jersey. During the colonial period, privateers used this landscape along with local knowledge to evade capture by British vessels. Leading up to the Battle of Chestnut Neck an earthen breastwork was built by colonists in 1778. In the 19th...
"Death Rode on Every Volley": How the Discovery of a Mass Hessian Burial Offers Interpretive Opportunities and Challenges at Red Bank Battlefield Park (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“A Little Grass and Earth Thrown in to fill up the Grave”: Archaeological studies of American War for Independence burial spaces", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Red Bank Battlefield Park, located in Gloucester County, New Jersey, is best remembered for the upset victory over attacking Hessian forces in October of 1777. In 2022, with the addition of a new parcel, the New Jersey Historical Commission awarded...
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER NJ-1268-A), Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Building 1909, Final (2023)
The U.S. Air Force contracted Argonne National Laboratory to complete HAER Level II documentation for the proposed demolition of Building 1909, a contributing element of the McGuire BOMARC-SAGE Historic District at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Hanover Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. The study was completed in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and National Park Service guidelines. Building 1909, the SAGE Cooling Tower, was a 41'-9" tall,...
Historic Building Recordation, Building 124 (Demolition of Addition to Building 124), Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, Ocean County, Lakehurst, NJ (2005)
The U.S. Navy contracted Louis Berger & Associates, Inc. to complete HABS/HAER Level III documentation for the proposed demolition of the addition to Building 124 (Heavier Than Air Hangar), a contributing element of the Lighter-Than-Air Historic District at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, Jackson and Manchester Townships and Lakehurst Borough, Ocean County, New Jersey. The study was completed in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and National Park...
Historic Building Recordation, Building 193, Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, New Jersey [Final] (1996)
The U.S. Navy contracted Louis Berger & Associates, Inc. to complete HABS/HAER Level II documentation for the proposed demolition of Building 193, a contributing element of the Lighter-Than-Air Historic District at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, Jackson and Manchester Townships and Lakehurst Borough, Ocean County, New Jersey. The study was completed in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and National Park Service guidelines. Building 193, the...
"Huts Placed in a More Exact Order than Philadelphia" Reassessing the Camps of the Connecticut Line and Hand’s Brigade at Morristown National Historical Park, Applying a Conjunctive Approach to Investigating Revolutionary War Encampments (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After 80+ years of archaeology at campsites from the American Revolution is there really anything left to be learned from more excavation? Shouldn’t these sites be left alone before they look like the archaeological equivalent of Swiss cheese? This paper, based on three recent seasons of...
A MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE BEVERWYCK MANOR SITE (1970)
Magnetic survey at a historical property in northern New Jersey by the Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
Monitoring the Effects of Changing Coastal Processes on Historic Shipwrecks in New Jersey (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beach erosion and replenishment, inlet dredging, coastal development, and severe storms amplified by climate change and sea level rise have endangered known shipwrecks sites. These coastal processes, man-made or natural, are contributing factors to changing environmental conditions at various historic shipwreck sites. This...
The Mysterious Skull of Count von Donop: Using Forensic Science to Resolve a Historical Case of Mistaken Identity (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Count Carl Emil Ulrich von Donop, adjutant to the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, volunteered for service in America during the Revolution and served as a Colonel commanding four battalions of Hessian grenadiers and the Jäger Corps. An aggressive and skillful officer, he played a key role in the...
National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: Hanover Furnace [Final] (1974)
This is the original, signed nomination form for the Hanover Furnace historic site with National Register entries documentation attached. Hanover Furnace is located on the North Branch of the Rancocas Creek within the Fort Dix military reservation. The form summarizes the history of the industrial town and notes that no extant structures mark the town’s location. Key archaeological features identified include: the bramble-covered iron master's house site; a pile of rubble representing the...
Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, Northeast Region Housing Privatization [Draft] (2004)
The U.S. Navy contracted John Cullinane Associates to complete an architectural history survey of the Lighter-Than-Air Historic District's 22 residential buildings with 12 associated garages that comprise the Married Officers' Quarters, Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey. The report provided elevation photographs and floor plans for the buildings, identified exterior and interior contributing elements and non-contributing elements, summarized...
Retracing the Middlebrook Encampments of the American Revolutionary War: A Cartographic Analysis (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Continental Army occupied a strategic section of the Watchung Mountains of New Jersey during the spring of 1777 and winter of 1778-79. More than 5,000 soldiers were encamped over a 10-square-mile area of Washington Valley in Somerset County. During what is known as the Middlebrook Encampments, the soldiers modified the terrain in this...
Section 110 - Eligibility Assessment of Cold War Era Resources at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. [Final] (2020)
On behalf of the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District contracted Potomac-Hudson Engineering, Inc. (PHE) to complete an eligibility assessment of Cold War Era resources at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey. An associated addendum report to this study is found at tDAR record #475488. The study was completed in accordance with Section 110 of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and the New Jersey Historic Preservation...
Shared Bodies: Social Patterns in Rural East Jersey and the Formation of an African American Community (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Using early 19th-century membership records from the Church of Paramus, this study proposes that systems of indirect enslavement used by Dutch descended families in Bergen County, New Jersey, fulfilled their domestic, farm, and possibly construction labor requirements. The...
Site Form, 28BU459 (1994)
New Jersey State Museum Archaeological Site Registration document for a Historic era farmstead site located in the McGuire area. Documentation includes systematic survey and site evaluation information. Site 28BU459 (Historic Site Location No. 31) is evaluated as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Includes site form updates from 1996 evaluation investigation (TRC Mariah Associates, Inc.).
Site Form, Site 28OC251 (2023)
The Pinehurst Estates 9C-1 site consists of three, L-shaped poured concrete foundation, measuring approximately 34-x-10 ft, 20-x-12ft, and 31-x-50ft, a small concrete slab foundation, a concrete pillar with four, embedded rebar pins, an oval-shaped shaft feature, interpreted as a cistern, and a square-shaped shaft feature.
Site Forms for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
Included here are the site forms for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst as well as associated maps, references, and artifact descriptions and drawings.
Stage I Archaeological Survey. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Solar Project. New Hanover, North Hanover, Springfield Townships and Wrightstown Borough, Burlington County, New Jersey (2016)
New Jersey Land LLC contracted Hunter Research, Inc. to complete a Stage IB archaeological survey within the area of potential effects (APE) for the proposed construction of a power bank duct for a proposed solar farm at JBMDL, New Hanover, North Hanover, and Springfield Townships and Wrightstown Borough, Burlington County. The proposed undertaking entailed excavation of a three-foot-wide open trench within a temporary 20-foot-wide, 4.7-mile-long LOD corridor. This study was completed in...
US Army National Guard Cultural Resources Planning Level Survey - Summary Report (1998)
In 1997, the National Guard Bureau (NGB) tasked the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis, with assisting the Army National Guard (ARNG) in complying with the cultural resource requirements outlined in Army Regulation 200-4 and Department of Defense Instruction 4715.3. The St. Louis District was asked to develop a national project minimally to address three objectives of the NGB cultural resources program: (1) national Planning Level Surveys (PLS) for all ARNG federally owned or supported...
US DoD Desk Guide to Military Installations and Federally Recognized Tribes Locations Located in South and Eastern US (Legacy 06-315)
This 2007 Desk Guide is a starting point for identifying the proper tribe(s) to contact. Initiating formal, government-to-government consultation would typically follow. The Desk Guide contains basic information on both the military installations and the tribes located in the South and Eastern Regions so that this same information is readily available for the tribal governments and their staff. Tribal staff may need to contact a military installation in a region or state which is part of their...
US DoD Desk Guide to Military Installations and Federally Recognized Tribes Locations Located in South and Eastern US - Guide (Legacy 06-315) (2007)
This 2007 Desk Guide is a starting point for identifying the proper tribe(s) to contact. Initiating formal, government-to-government consultation would typically follow. The Desk Guide contains basic information on both the military installations and the tribes located in the South and Eastern Regions so that this same information is readily available for the tribal governments and their staff. Tribal staff may need to contact a military installation in a region or state which is part of their...
"Will Likely Endeavor to Pass for Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements in New Jersey Newspapers, 1777-1808 (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The American experiment in liberty was imperfect from the start: the Revolution advanced ideals of universal human equality, but left intact the economic and social underpinnings of slavery. Those ideals nevertheless had their effects on all sides: enslaved people and...
William Green Plantation Archaeological Project: Uncovering The Lives Of Indentured And Enslaved Persons In 18th Century Trenton, New Jersey (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Built around 1720, at its largest, the William Green Plantation covered 360 acres just outside of Trenton, New Jersey. Recently, archaeological excavations at the last remaining building, the original farmhouse, have identified artifacts spanning the entirety of the...