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This is the original National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the Hanover Furnace historic property. Hanover Furnace dates from the post revolutionary period and contained an iron furnace, iron master's house, workers houses, and a sawmill. The furnace supported a community of over 200 people and lasted until the raw materials were depleted in the 1840's.
Historic American Buildings Survey, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Building 1909, Final (2023)
HABS/HAER Level II documentation of McGuire BOMARC-SAGE Historic District Building 1909, the SAGE Cooling Tower. Building 1909 was a rein-forced concrete facility constructed in 1956. The documentation includes a historic report, photograph contact sheets of the facility, and architectural drawings.
Historic Building Recordation, Building 124 (Demolition of Addition to Building 124), Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst (NAES), Ocean County, Lakehurst, NJ (2005)
HABS/HAER Level II documentation of Lighter-Than-Air Historic District Building 124 Office and Shop Building. The Office and Shop Buildigns was a wood-frame adjoining building constructed in 1933 adjacent to the Heavier Than Air Hangar (Building 124). The documentation includes two volumes. Volume I contains a base-wide history of NAES Lakehurst. Volume II contains a summary history of the Lighter-Than-Air program, as well as a Building 26 historic context and condition assessment report,...
Historic Building Recordation, Building 193, Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, New Jersey (1996)
HABS/HAER Level II documentation of Lighter-Than-Air Historic District Building 193, the Recreation Building. Building 193 was a wood-frame, World War II building constructed in 1942 and demolished in 1996. The draft documentation includes a historic report and index to photographs of the facility and architectural drawings.
"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
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...
Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, Northeast Region Housing Privatization (2004)
Architectural history survey of NAES Lakehurst Lighter-Than-Air Historic District's 22 residential buildings with 12 associated garages that comprise the Married Officers' Quarters. The report provided elevation photographs and floor plans for the buildings, identified exterior and interior contributing elements and non-contributing elements, summarized maintenance deficiences, and provided recommendations for exterior rehabilitation.
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...
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, 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.
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...