Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Archaeology and Cultural Resources Archive

DOCUMENT Full-Text U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District.

This is a draft cultural resource management plan for the Regional Training Site (Intelligence) and the Equipment Concentration Site (ECS) #27 at Fort Dix. Based on the topographic location of this facility, historic map research, and subsurface testing, no further archaeological work is recommended for the Regional Training Site (Intelligence) property. Building 6558 is probably not eligible for the New Jersey State or National Register of Historic Places as an individual structure but may be...

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Volume II of CRM plan. Appendices B-F

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter E. Siegel. Alexander B. Bartlett. Tod L. Benedict. William J. Chadwick. Mark A. Tobias.

Phase IB archaeological survey of the Fort Dix armory, a 44-acre complex within Fort Dix. Investigations included excavation of 169 shovel tests in high, moderate, and low sensitivity areas, of which 76 documented areas of soil disturbance. No potentially significant archaeological resources were identified.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Berg.

Addendum report to PHE's (2019) JBMDL Section 110 CWE Eligibility Report. The addendum evaluated the NRHP eligibility of 29 facilities. Of the 29 additional facilities evaluated, 13 were found to be demolished or rebuilt in place and 9 were determined not eligible due to property type. The remaining seven facilities were evaluated using NJHPO survey forms. Four were determined not eligible for the NRHP. Three facilities – Facility #131 (Water Treatment House), Facility #140 (PW Chemical...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sonja Lengel.

The plan summarizes the historic context for the McGuire BOMARC-SAGE Historic District, focused on Building 1506, the ground to air transmitter facility, and provides a conditions assesssment for Building 1506. The plan summarizes management options and recommends mitigation approaches for management options with the potential to adversely affect the facility.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Oneida Total Integrated Enterprises and Cardno GS, Inc.

The plan summarizes the historic context for the McGuire BOMARC-SAGE Historic District, focused on Building 1909, the SAGE Cooling Tower, and provides a conditions assesssment for Building 1909. The plan summarizes management options and recommends mitigation approaches for management options with the potential to adversely affect the facility.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sonja Lengel.

The plan summarizes the historic context for the Lighter-Than-Air Historic District, focused on Hangars 5 and 6, and provides conditions assesssments for Hangars 5 and 6. The plan summarizes management options and recommends mitigation approaches for management options with the potential to adversely affect the facilities.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL. K.L Moeller. D.A Walitschek. M. Greby. John F. Hoffecker.

An inventory and evaluation of archaeological and historic resources was undertaken by Argonne National Laboratory at McGuire Air Force Base, which occupies an area of 3,536 acres within the New Jersey Pinelands in Burlington County, New Jersey. Five off­base facilities totaling 246. 78 acres were also included in the inventory. Existing site files and reports, historic records and maps, aerial photographs, and other sources were consulted for background information on the base and surrounding...

DOCUMENT Full-Text U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections.

The U.S. Army Environmental Center (AEC) tasked the Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) with the job of assisting Army installation personnel in complying with the requirements of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (P.L. 101-601, NAGPRA). The MCX was asked to locate and assess archaeological collections derived from Army-owned lands, to identify the federally recognized Native American tribes most likely...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hunter Research, Inc.

This report describes and discusses archaeological data recovery at the site of the Cherry Valley Tavern/Pointville Hotel Site [28-Bu-413], located on the Fort Dix Military Reservation in Burlington County, New Jersey. Data recovery was undertaken to enable a Determination of No Adverse Effect to be made in respect of proposed wastewater treatment facilities which would adversely effect the remains of the tavern. Phase 2 investigations had previously determined that the tavern was eligible for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard D. Holmes.

Mariah Associates Inc. (Mariah) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, performed limited Phase II site testing at four historic sites at McGuire Air Force Base (AFB) in Burlington County, New Jersey. The sites are depicted on the New Egypt, New Jersey. The sites are 28-Bu-458 (HS-29), 28-Bu-459 (HS-31), North Run Refuse Midden, 28-Bu-460 (HS-46). The context for archaeological research at these sites was provided by the Pinelands Cultural Resource Management Plan for Historic Period Sites (New Jersey...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kise Straw & Kolodner, Inc..

This report documents the results of archaeological monitoring activities conducted between October 2004 and March 2005 at Hanover Lake Dam, located within the boundaries of the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Dix (USATCFD), Burlington County, New Jersey. Hanover Lake Dam is also the location of an archaeological site known as the Hanover Furnace Complex (28BU512), which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Park Service 1974). A base initiative to restore the dam and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Bowen. Laurie Paonessa. Dennis Knepper. Carter Shields. Mackenzie Caldwell Rohm.

(Description)Phase I archaeological survey within 5,303 acres; 11 new sites documented: 6 prehistoric and 5 historical. All of the prehistoric sites represent the Late Archaic through Late Woodland periods. Five prehistoric sites (BU28953, 28BU956, 28BU957, 28BU958, 28BU961) were recommended eligible for inclusion in the NRHP. A single prehistoric site, 28BU954, was recommended not eligible. None of the newly recorded historical sites (28BU955, 28BU959, 28BU960, 28BU962, and 28BU963) were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter E. Siegel. Douglas C. McVarish. Mark A. Tobias.

John Milner Associates, Inc. (JMA) performed two Phase I archeological surveys and five Phase IA archeological sensitivity assessments in seven New Jersey Army National Guard (NJANG) installations: Picatinny, Morristown, West Orange, Lawrenceville, Fort Dix, Sea Girt, and Vineland. These investigations were performed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), St. Louis District on behalf of the New Jersey Army National Guard. The purpose of the studies is to assist in the preparation of an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurie J. Paonessa. Elizabeth B. O'Brien. Susan L. Bupp. Donald E. Bender.

This architectural inventory and evaluation for the Charles E. Kelly Support Facility in southwestern Pennsylvania was conducted in compliance with Army Regulation 200-4 and Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 as amended. The buildings were inventoried in accordance with procedures currently in use by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Bureau of Historic Preservation. C. E. Kelly is composed of four discontiguous parcels in Allegheny County linked by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc..

This project details an architectural investigation o f two buildings (Buildings 9001 and 9007) located on the Fort Dix Military Installation in Burlington County, New Jersey. Due to the need to close the wells under these two buildings in accordance with current New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection regulations and the lack of any foreseeable need for these presently unused structures, the U S. Army has proposed to demolish these buildings in order to access the wells. In accordance...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Larson Farnham. Douglas C. McVarish.

This project is an architectural investigation of all previously undocumented pre-1960 buildings at Fort Dix Military Installation in Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey. In accordance with regulations concerning the protection of cultural resources on the installation, the U.S. Army has contracted to document all of its remaining pre-1960 buildings prior to demolition, alteration, or reuse. John Milner Associates, Inc. (JMA) was subcontracted by Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Larson Farnham. Douglas C. McVarish.

Volume 2 of the series hold the appendices which includes qualifications of the principal investigators, the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office Individual Structure Survey Forms, and Program comments. This project is an architectural investigation of all previously undocumented pre-1960 buildings at Fort Dix Military Installation in Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey. In accordance with regulations concerning the protection of cultural resources on the installation, the U.S. Army...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas C. McVarish.

This project is an architectural investigation of five buildings (Buildings 3270, 3502, 3503, 3504, and 3505) located on the Fort Dix Military Installation in Burlington County, New Jersey. Due to lack of foreseeable need for these presently unused buildings, the U S. Army proposes to demolish them In accordance with regulations concerning the protection of cultural resources on the installation, the U S Army has contracted to document these buildings prior to their demolition John Milner...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas C. McVarish.

This project is an architectural investigation of seven buildings (Buildings 5311, 5319, 5321, 6510, 6608, 6621, and 6622) located on the Fort Dix Military Installation in Burlington County, New Jersey. Due to the lack of any foreseeable need for these presently unused and partially used buildings, the U.S. Army has proposed to demolish them. In 1986, the Department of Defense entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the National...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeanne Barnes. Paul Weishar.

In total, 61 buildings were surveyed and evaluated at 28 installations across the state. Surveyed resources were evaluated for National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility on an individual basis and for their potential to contribute to one or more historic districts. The report included an evaluation of Hangar 307 on Lakehurst. Built in 1957, Hanagar 307 is a three-story rectangular steel hangar with a low pitched gable roof supported by a Howe truss system. Hangar 307 was determined...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Dix.

Black and white photographs of aerial imagery of the area encompassing Fort Dix.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Dix.

Black and white photographs of aerial imagery of the area encompassing Fort Dix.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base.

This file is a collection of blueprints of the BOMARC missile facility at McGuire Air Force Base. Blueprints include plans for various buildings, pavement profiles, loading docks, heating and venting systems and water treatment centers. The dates of the blueprints range from 1953 to 1962.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rachel Kline.

Alternative management plan summarized the future use and treatment of the Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Complex, one of four discontiguous sections of the National Register eligible McGuire BOMARC-SAGE Historic District (MBSHD), located within the Plumstead Township, Ocean County. The MBSHD comprises four discontiguous boundaries spread across a total of 117 acres that house 117 buildings and structures. The report provides an existing condition assessment and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base.

This is a collection of black and white photographs from McGuire Air Force Base with dates ranging from 2002 to 2003. The photos are taken from frontal and aerial views. The collection consists of pictures of the surrounding landscape and existing buildings, as well as the demolition of some of the existing buildings. The survey, excavation, and removal of certain areas are also documented in these photos. Photos of BOMARC XF-99 from USAF museum photo archives are also included within this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base.

This is a collection of color photographs from McGuire Air Force Base with dates ranging from 2002 to 2003. The photos are taken from frontal and aerial views. The collection consists of pictures of the surrounding landscape and existing buildings, as well as the demolition of some of the existing buildings. The survey, excavation, and removal of certain areas are also documented in these photos. These color photos are part of McGuire Air Defense Missile Site Plutonium Remediation, Site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Dix.

Color photographs of aerial imagery of the area encompassing Fort Dix.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Hunter. Damon Tvaryanas. Douglas Scott.

A combined Phase I and II cultural resource survey was carried out in connection with the New Jersey Department of Transportation’s proposed replacement of Bridge’s 0317-156 and 0317-157 along a stretch of U.S. Route 130 in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, N.J. These bridges cross the abandoned alignment of the Delaware and Atlantic/Columbus, Kinkora and Springfield Railroad which formerly extended between Kinkora and New Lisbon. These studies were focused on the identification and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Cullinane Associates.

"The report describes rehabilitation activites at the National Register-eligible Scott Plaza Family Housing Area in Fort Dix, New Jersey and documents their final conformance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties (Treatment Standards). Between October 2007 and April 2008, John Cullinane Associates made six monthly visits to the Scott Plaza Family Housing Area in order to monitor rehabilitation activities. The report summarizes rehabilitation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Darrell Gundrum. Lucy A. Whalley.

The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (USACERL) was tasked to conduct research for Army installation personnel at Fort Dix, New Jersey, that will contribute to their compliance with the requirements of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (25 U.S.C.3001-3013 (NAGPRA) and its implementing regulations 43 C.F.R. Part 10. Specifically, USACERL was tasked to review all pertinent information on cultural affiliation for future archaeological materials...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bertram Herbert. Robert Grumet.

Phase IA cultural resources reconnaissance survey of McGuire Air Force Base (MAFB) and five off-site properties associated with McGuire Air Force Base. Identified five areas of archaeological sensitivity within MAFB recommended for further study: Pointville area, Larkins Run southeast of the MAFB airfield, South Run within the MAFB airfield infield, one mile north of Pointville, and South Run within the Falcon Creek golf course. Identified potentially significant cultural resources at BOMARC...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cultural Resource Group, Louis Berger & Associates, Inc..

The report is divided into two volumes. Volume I includes the management summary, environmental setting, prehistoric and historic overviews, and the results of the archaeological and architectural surveys. This report presents the results of a Phase I cultural resource survey which was conducted at the U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Dix during the winter of 1982. The survey was administered by the National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Region, Philadelphia and was conducted by the Cultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cultural Resource Group, Louis Berger & Associates, Inc..

The report is divided into two volumes. Volume II consists of the technical appendices including the results of the historic map search, detailed survey results, artifact records, National Register, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), and New Jersey Historic Sites Inventory Forms, and a detail of the predictive model used for the survey. This report presents the results of a Phase I cultural resource survey which was conducted at the U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Dix during the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Louis Berger & Associates, Inc.. Heritage Studies, Inc..

This document only contains Appendix A of the original report. Appendix A represents the results of the historic map search for potential historic sites within the boundaries of the USATCFD reservation. All potential sites are listed in table form. Each table references particular sites (generally farmsteads) to the historic maps in which they appear and each site is located on current USGS 7.5' topographic maps. The historic maps are located in the beginning of the appendix. The topographic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hunter Research, Inc..

This report describes an archaeological survey undertaken as part of proposals for new tertiary wastewater treatment facilities at Fort Dix and the McGuire Air Force Base, in parts of New Hanover and Pemberton Townships, Burlington County, New Jersey. The project involves construction or stockpiling of materials on a total of approximately 150 acres, disposed in five separate locations, and the placement of a new force main along about 5.25 miles of new alignment. Background research for the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Elena Decima. Leslie Donovan. Sue LoGuidice. Rachel Smith.

Architectural History Survey Forms, Lakehurst Historic District: Married Officers' Quarters; administrative buildings; Hangar 1; Hangars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Landing Mats 1, 2, emergency landing mat; Hindenburg Crash Site; Cathedral of the Air; munitions magazines; industrial/utility buildings; storage buildings; recreational facilities; garages; radio transmitter facilities; personnel and public services buildings; barracks; guard house; command headquarters

DOCUMENT Full-Text Louis Berger & Associates.

Phase I archaeological survey in support of proposed 23-mile, underground fiber-optic cable installation between Camden and Manasquan, New Jersey. Segment 1, between Pemberton and Wrightstown, traversed western portions of Fort Dix within the former Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad right-of-way. Auger testing and five posthole tests completed in Segment 1 document disturbed soils. No surface or subsurface artifacts were encountered and no potentially significant archaeological resources were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hunter Research Inc.

This report details an architectural investigation of a group of twelve temporary wooden warehouse buildings located on the west side of Wrightstown-Pemberton Rd. within the 3100 Building Series on the Fort Dix Military Installation (FDMI) in Burlington County, New Jersey. Faced with the poor overall condition of the warehouses and the lack of any foreseeable need for the facilities, the United States Army has proposed to demolish this group of buildings. Recognizing its management...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hunter Research.

This report details an architectural investigation of a group of buildings and structures (Buildings 3253, 3560, 4439, 6605, 6739, 6740, 9434, 9511 and 9911) located on the Fort Dix Military Installation (FDMI) in Burlington County, New Jersey. Faced with the poor overall condition of these resources and the lack of any foreseeable need for the facilities, the United States Army has proposed to demolish this group of resources. Recognizing its management responsibilities concerning the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dale L. Sadler.

The Department of the Air Force proposes to expand the Air Mobility Warfare Center existing parking lot located on the south side of building # 5656 at Fort Dix, New Hanover Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. A cultural resource survey was undertaken across the entire property in accordance to Pinelands Commission regulation 7:50-6.155(a). The cultural resource survey comprised of both a review of historic and contemporary documentary and cartographic sources and subsurface testing on a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Hunter. William Sandy.

The following report describes a cultural resources reconnaissance carried out in connection with the proposed upgrading of seven range areas at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Three of these areas (Ranges 6, 9 and 11, totalling 124 acres) are located in New Hanover Township, Burlington County. The remaining four areas (Ranges 61, 65, 85 and 9300, totalling 1026 acres) are located in Plumsted Township, Ocean County. These cultural resource studies were carried out by Hunter Research Associates under...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Leary. Teresa Rudolph.

This report documents a Phase I intensive archaeological investigation at the Naval Air Engineering Station (NAES) Lakehurst located in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The Phase I survey was conducted for the associated with a proposed action to provide a complete and usable paved roadway for military ground vehicles conducting missions at NAES Lakehurst including vehicles that may be coming from Fort Dix Army Base and McGuire Air Force Base (AFB). The survey at the NAES was conducted to identify...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vincent G. Bourgeois. Glenn R. Modica.

A cultural resources survey was conducted by Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. for Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation on behalf of the Historic Preservation Office, Environmental Division, Directorate of Public Works. U S. Army, Fort Dix, New Jersey, at the site of a proposed Central Tactical Vehicle Wash Facility. The U. S. Army has slated one structure on the property, Building 8432, for demolition. In accordance with regulations concerning the protection of cultural resources on the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Baystate Environmental Consultants.

A Cultural Resources Survey (CRS) has been conducted for Naval Air Engineering Station (NAES) Lakehurst, Ocean County, New Jersey. NAES Lakehurst was established in 1921, and until 1961 was the center for the Navy's lighter-than-air (LTA) program on the east coast. This CRS consists of a review of published and archival sources, a building survey, a preliminary walkover inspection of known or suspected archaeological sites, an evaluation of the potential eligibility of the buildings and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text URS.

This report is a preliminary draft of a cultural resource survey that was conducted between January 19 and March 15, 2000 for a proposed Air Mobility Warfare Center compound site at Fort Dix. A walkover survey was performed prior to subsurface testing to determine existing conditions. This survey identified the presence of a partially exposed brick and mortar feature in the northern section near 18th Street. Initially, it was unclear whether this feature is part of an intact foundation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Madge D. Smith.

A cultural resources survey was undertaken in February 2001 on cellular tower site PRI 68-PHI FTDIX in Pemberton Township, Burlington County, located within the Fort Dix Military Reservation. The survey was conducted by Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. (Cranbury, New Jersey) for Adams, Rehmann & Heggan Associates, Inc (Hammonton, New Jersey) as required by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Pinelands Commission. The Area of Potential Effect (APE), was a 10,000 square...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dennis Knepper. Christopher Bowen. Mackenzie Caldwell Rohm.

Versar’s assessment of sites 28BU526 and 28BU519/530 suggests that the sites did sustain damage from recreational activity, but that the overall eligibility status of the sites does not appear to have been affected. The damage assessment has shown that the damage to 28BU531 and 28BU533 was minimal (at the time of investigation), and the National Register eligibility of the sites has not been negatively affected by the disturbances. Versar’s National Register evaluation of 28BU539 recommended the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Joyce. Alice Good.

Intensive-level architectural history survey and consultation for the proposed removal of four berms associated with late nineteenth to early twentieth century cranberry bogs. The intensive-level survey concluded that the berms lack association with important historical events or persons in the cranberry industry, do not possess integrity of design, feeling, and association, and are no longer within a setting indicative of cranberry farming. The survey assessed the berms as not eligible for the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Malcolm Pirnie, Inc..

Report reviews Fort Dix military munitions response program records, including historical mapping, to identify locations historically used as operational ranges and where unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, and munition constituents may be encountered. The report provides recommendations for environmental restoration of these areas.

DOCUMENT Full-Text HHM Inc..

Architectural history survey of Naval Reserve Training Center, Fort Dix buildigns 5951, 5880, 5882, 5887, 5919, 5954, 5955, 5956, 5957, 5958, and 5994. No historically significant historic architectural resources identified.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Malcolm Pirnie, Inc..

The Department of Defense (DoD) has established the Military Munitions Response Program under the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) to address munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) (including unexploded ordnance [UXO] and discarded military munitions) and munitions constituents (MC) at other than operational military ranges and other sites. Closed, transferred, and transferring military ranges and sites not located on an operational range are considered other than operational....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tetra Tech.

Tetra Tech, Inc. (Tetra Tech), under contract to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL), conducted an architectural resource survey (eligibility assessment) of 167 facilities on the JB MDL. JB MDL is located in Ocean and Burlington Counties, in central New Jersey. This report describes a historic architectural resource investigation of those previously unrecorded, pre-1967 buildings at JB MDL identified by base personnel for survey. This study was conducted as part of JB MDL's compliance...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ray Pasquariello. James A. Clark. Gregory R. Dubell.

This is the final version of this report. This is volume 2 of 2 and includes appendices I-V including, qualifications of key personnel, survey block maps, artifact catalog, shovel test pit records, New Jersey State Museum site registration forms. TRC Environmental Corporation (TRC) conducted a Planning Level (Phase I) Cultural Resource Survey of approximately 162 hectares (400 acres) of selected, discontiguous Tactical Training Areas (TACs) on Fort Dix, New Jersey between December 2003 and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ray Pasquariello. James A. Clark. Gregory R. Dubell.

This version of the report is the final version. it is volume 1 of 2. TRC Environmental Corporation (TRC) conducted a Planning Level (Phase I) Cultural Resource Survey of approximately 162 hectares (400 acres) of selected, discontiguous Tactical Training Areas (TACs) on Fort Dix, New Jersey between December 2003 and March 2004. The purpose of the Phase 1 survey was to locate and identify any potentially significant cultural resources in portions of TACs 1D, 1E, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C, 5A,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Pagoulatos.

In 2004, a planning level (Phase I) survey was completed at the Fort Dix Military Installation in Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey. Since 1995, Fort Dix has undertaken a long-term investigation to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and manage archaeological resources at the installation. A stratified research methodology was initially employed by placing standardized sampling units into zones of high and low sensitivity. Areas of high and low archaeological sensitivity consisted of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text PARS Environmental Inc.

On behalf of the United States Army Directorate of Public Works, the PARS Enviormental, Inc, (PARS) has conducted a Phase IA Archaeological Assessment for a lA-acre parcel and its surrounding half-mile radius within the southeastern corner of the Fort Dix Army Base. This portion of the base is located in Manchester Township, Ocean County, New Jersey. The United States Army Directorate of Public Works has proposed the construction of four new buildings within the northwestern corner of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text AMEC E&C Services, Inc..

AMEC E&C Services, Inc. has been commissioned by AMEC E&E Services, Inc (AMEC) to perform a geophysical survey at Fort Dix, NJ. The geophysical survey is in support of a Phase 1 Cultural Resources Survey (e.g. an archeological survey), the purpose of which is to identify potential features of archeological significance, in advance of planned construction activities in the study area. The study site consists of a nominal 150 ft x 250 ft area located within Ft. Dix. Several anomalies were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles H. Ashton.

HABS/HAER inventory forms for structures located on Fort Dix Military Installation. Includes building description and historical background information.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard E. Greenwood.

This is the original National Register of Historic Places nomination form for Hangar No. 1 in Lakehurst's Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) Historic District. Hangar No. 1 is a 961ft.-long, 200ft-high, 350ft-wide, steel arch hangar built in 1921 to house U.S. Navy dirigibles. Hangar No. 1 served as the primary hangar for international airship flights, and was the site of the German Zeppelin Hindenburg airship crash in 1937.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bretton Somers.

Review of cultural context and previous research and evaluation surveys for the Hanover Furnace historic property (28BU512 and 28BU514) and its associated sites: 28BU513, 28BU944 and 28BU945. Summary of management recommendations for conservation of archaeological sites associated with Hanover Furnace, including: nomination as an archaeological district, avoidance of ground disturbance, routine condition assessments, enhance law enforcement patrols to discourage looting and vandalism, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text NJDEP Historic Sites Section.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel J. O'Rourke.

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.

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Tetra Tech EC, Inc., (TtEC) under contract to Fort Dix, has conducted an architectural resource survey and study of Brindle Lake Dam (Dam). The Dam is located in the Township of Plumsted, Ocean County, New Jersey, at Fort Dix. Fort Dix has proposed repair and rehabilitation of the Dam. Brindle Lake Dam (Dam) is a 1928 earth dam, with a wooden spillway, which was constructed to replace a nineteenth century dam on the same site. The Dam impounds a pond, Brindle Lake, with a surface area of...

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Tetra Tech EC, Inc. (TtEC), under contract to the Army Reserve Contracting Center, Fort Dix, New Jersey (“Fort Dix"), conducted an architectural resource survey and study of four 1930s-era utilitarian buildings located at Fort Dix. Fort Dix proposes to demolish or renovate the buildings. This study is conducted as part of Fort Dix's compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. Fort Dix will consult with the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Louis Berger & Associates.

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,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Louis Berger & Associates.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Louis Berger & Associates.

HABS/HAER Level II documentation of Lighter-Than-Air Historic District Building 200, the Administration Building. Building 200 was a wood-frame, World War II building constructed in 1943 and demolished in 1996. The draft documentation includes a historic report and index to photographs of the facility and architectural drawings.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Cullinane Associates.

The study is focused on identification and evaluation of the BOMARC Facility located at the northwest comer of Fort Dix, and SAGE (Building 1907), on McGuire AFB grounds, both of which were elements in the military defense systems developed during the Cold War era. This report details the methods used in identifying and evaluating the BOMARC Facility and SAGE (Building 1907), the sources of data, descriptions of the properties, and evaluations against the National Register criteria. In...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Dix.

Historical aerial photograph of Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cabrera Services, Inc.

This document is a radiological historical site assessment (HSA) for the Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Missile Site on the Fort Dix Military Reservation, Plumsted Township, New Jersey (see Figure 1). In 1958, the 46th Air Defense Missile Squadron (ADMS) from McGuire Air Force Base (AFB) was authorized use of approximately 220 acres of Fort Dix property for the construction of a missile facility. The Site is approximately 11 miles east of McGuire AFB. This facility...

DOCUMENT Full-Text United States Army Training Center Infantry.

This report documents the history of Fort Dix from its inception during World War I to the time of its writing in the 1960s. The appendices includes list of commanders throughout the years and the rooster dated December 31, 1966.

DOCUMENT Full-Text First Environment, Inc.. Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc..

Phase II Site Evaluations for five previously identified sites 28BU524, 28BU534, 28BU535, 28BU674, and 28BU679. Site 28BU674 is considered ineligible for listing on the NRHP. Evaluation of the Stackhouse Hotel/H-9 site (28BU524) identified two distinct domestic deposits relating to the Stackhouse (Locus 1) and Keeler (Locus 2) properties. Locus 1, chiefly pre-dates the hotel’s (pre-1840) operations and are indicative of a domestic site centered within an early crossroad community. Deposits...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert S. Webb.

An initial cultural resources assessment was conducted for the Fort Dix Sanitary Landfill Site, Fort Dix Military Reservation, Pemberton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. The project study area consists of approximately 126 acres, including an existing 76 acre landfill and surrounding 50 acres. The landfill is on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Priority List and is scheduled for remedial closure. Remediation activities will be conducted within the existing landfill and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base.

The Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan (ICRMP) provides an internal compliance and management tool that enables the conservation of historic properties and cultural resources (CR) in concert with the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) mission. The ICRMP integrates the legal requirements for CR preservation with ongoing mission activities and ensures that mission essential activities are fully supported by the management policies and procedures outlined within. The ICRMP is based...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Ford. Diana Garnett.

Phase I identification survey for archaeological resources and intensive-level architectural history survey of facilities within the area of potential effects for the proposed hot cargo loading area pad redevelopment. The archaeological survey comprised 1.52 acres and 23 shovel tests. No potentially significant archaeological resources were identified. The architectural history survey evaluated the HCLA pads (1147), two defense fighting position structures, and a generaator faciltiy (1146). No...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Mid-Atlantic.

The Navy is proposing to construct an Aircraft Carrier Aviation Integrated Test/Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Facility at the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, located in Lakehurst, Ocean County, New Jersey. Naval Facilities Engineering Command Mid-Atlantic contracted TEC Inc. to prepare a command-specific Cold War historic context and conduct an intensive-level architectural survey of 24 buildings built prior to 1990 that will be affected by the proposed project to evaluate...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robyn Watkins Morris.

Overview document on federally recognized tribes affiliated with JBDML, consultation history, and protocol for government to government consultation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel J. O'Rourke. Stephen Sennott. Andrew Orr. Lynn Gierek.

A Management Plan (Volume 1) and a Condition Assessment (Vollume II) for the Lighter-Than-Air Historic District conducted on behalf of the United States Air Force at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey. The management plan aids Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in managing the historic properties under its jurisdiction as required by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The Lighter-Than- Air Historic District is eligible for listing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Raymond D. Pasquariello.

Between December 2003 and March 2004, TRC Environmental Corporation (TRC) conducted a Planning Level (Phase I) Cultural Resource Survey for approximately 162 hectares (400 acres) of selected, discontiguous tactical training areas. This survey was performed for the Fort Dix Directorate of Public Works/Environmental Division and represents partial fulfillment of Fort Dix’s ongoing cultural resources compliance under Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Raymond D. Pasquariello.

Between December 2003 and March 2004, TRC Environmental Corporation (TRC) conducted a Planning Level (Phase I) Cultural Resource Survey for approximately 162 hectares (400 acres) of selected, discontiguous tactical training areas. A total of 56 separate archaeological sites and isolated finds were encountered during this investigation. Of this total, 25 were previously known sites (22 historic and three prehistoric) that were specifically slated for systematic shovel testing. The remaining 31...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Chester Nowak.

Map of Fort Dix Military Reservation as drawn by Matthew Chester Nowak, Forestry Technician. This map was worked on in 1977 and is based upon past maps and photos.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Carr.

The US developed a vast air defense network system from both Air Force and Army elements consisting of supersonic jets, anti-aircraft guns and missiles, radar detection capabilities, and ground observation to counter the Soviet threat of bombers equipped with nuclear weapons. As part of this air defense system, the Air Force along with private industry developed the BOMARC surface to air missile system, the BOMARC, named from "BO" for Boeing and "MARC" for Michigan Aeronautical Research Center,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Murphey.

The purpose of this report, a reconnaissance survey of the McGuire Air Defense Missile Site (hereafter referred to generically as BOMARC), is to ascertain if the site, or portions thereof, meet the requirements of the National Register of Historic Places and require compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. This report is supplemental to a reconnaissance survey of Cold War properties conducted at McGuire AFB, New Jersey. The main report finds at McGuire AFB, only one group...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Barnes Plimpton.

Architectural history reconnaissance level assessments of three facilities potentially affected by the KC-46 beddown, including a historical context and condition assessment for Building 3209. Building 3209 (Big Beige) is NRHP eligible under Criterion C for its double cantilever design.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Joyce.

The Lakehurst Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) Historic District is an early air transportation historic district located in the heart of Naval Air Engineering Station (NAES) Lakehurst, formerly known as Naval Air Station (NAS) Lakehurst. The district is comprised of 74 contributing properties and 10 non-contributing properties. Contributing properties are buildings and structures constructed between 1919 and 1953 as part of the Navy’s LTA aviation program that involved operation of both rigid and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heritage Studies, Inc..

This report is a nomination form for Camp Dix Warehouse Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places Inventory. Includes descriptions, photographs, and related correspondence. The Camp Dix Warehouse Historic District, located entirely within Fort Dix in central New jersey, is composed of five originally identical frame warehouses and the masonry base of a grain elevator. All were built as part of the mobilization which followed the entry of the United States into World War I...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Louis Berger & Associates.

This is a revised nomination form for the historic site of Hanover Furnace to the National Register of Historic Places Inventory. Hanover Furnace is located on the North Branch of the Rancocas Creek within the Fort Dix military reservation. It is unoccupied except for an adjacent firing range. Hanover Furnace dates from the post revolutionary period of the eighteenth century. In its early history it contained an iron furnace, iron master's house, workers houses, and a sawmill. The adjacent...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith C. Buch.

National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form for the Hartshorne-Harker House or Quarters One (Fort Dix Commanding General's Quarter) at Fort Dix. Quarters One, built in 1848, is one of two structures within the confines of Fort Dix, New Jersey, that predate construction of the installation and is among the oldest structures on the post. The driveway was originally the main road into Camp Dix, the precursor of the present Fort Dix, until construction of the present traffic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Dix.

National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form for the Hartshorne-Harker House, also known as Quarters 1 (Fort Dix Commanding General's Quarters). Includes statements of significance and accompanying maps and photographs. A complete version of this nomination form can be found in tDAR at: https://core.tdar.org/document/438576

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National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form and associated correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and title search about the Ridgway-Oldrey House, Quarters 2 which is located in the confines of Fort Dix, New Jersey. Quarters 2 is one of the two structures at Fort Dix that predates the construction of the installation and is among the oldest building on the post built in approximately 1861. The vernacular architecture of the house illustrates the "basic' house type...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John J. Cullinane.

This is the original National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Facility. The BOMARC facility contains 110 one and two-stoy buildings and structures that operated as an autonomous strategic air defense missile site between 1959 and 1972. The historic district includes 108 contributing resources (84 missile shelters and 24 support buildings and structures) and 2 non-contributing resources. The BOMARC facility is considered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John J. Cullinane.

This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts.The SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) system was designed and developed in the mid-1950s to coordinate all air defense components of U.S. air defense system. SAGE was born out of a need to replace the Manual Air Defense System used extensively in WWII to track enemy aircraft. As the perceived threat from Soviet air attacks increased in the early 1950s, it became apparent...

DOCUMENT Full-Text United States Department of The Navy.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeanne Barnes. Paul Weishar.

Volume II. In total, 61 buildings were surveyed and evaluated at 28 installations across the state. Surveyed resources were evaluated for National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility on an individual basis and for their potential to contribute to one or more historic districts. The report included an evaluation of Hangar 307 on Lakehurst. Built in 1957, Hanagar 307 is a three-story rectangular steel hangar with a low pitched gable roof supported by a Howe truss system. Hangar 307 was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eileen Krall. Edward Morin.

This report presents the results of cultural resource monitoring for a proposed P-162V Joint Aviation Support Division and Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Detachment Facility at Fort Dix, Burlington County, New Jersey. URS Corporation (URS) conducted this work for Archer Western Contractors. The purpose of the study was to identify the nature/extent of any cultural resources encountered within the project’s area of potential effects (APE) and determine if they would be impacted during the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base.

In 2011, an archaeological excavation was conducted at Site 28-BU-542 within Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL). Site 28-BU-542 is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion D of 36 Code of Federal Regulations 60.4 and is a portion of the historic community of Pointville dating from the early nineteenth century. This brochure briefly describes background information, excavation information, and corresponding results.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc.

A Phase I archaeological investigation was conducted by Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. for Ogden Environmental and Energy Services Co., Inc. on behalf of the Historic Preservation Office, Environmental Division, Directorate of Public Works, U.S. Army, Fort Dix, New Jersey at the site of a proposed leach field and septic tank for the proposed Ammunition Storage Point (ASP) in Tactical Training Area 5D, Fort Dix Military Installation, New Hanover Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Testing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kimberly Sebestyen. Steven Brann.

Archaeological testing was conducted in April and May of 2013 of approximately 132 hectares (326 acres) of land within 29 prehistoric and historic survey blocks and four pedestrian survey blocks at Lakehurst portion of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL). A total of 1,611 shovel test pits were excavated in the 29 survey blocks within the JB MDL Lakehurst study area. No prehistoric artifacts were recovered from and no features were noted within the high, low, or moderate prehistoric blocks...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard D. Holmes. Toni R. Goar. Katherine J. Rozlau.

A Phase I archaeological survey was conducted for Areas 4100 and 4200 at McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County, New Jersey. The area of these parcels is 48.06 acres (Area 4100) and 29.59 acres (Area 4200). Military use of these parcels, once part of Fort Dix, dates from World War I. Temporary World War II wooden, single-story hospital structures stood here until they were demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. A warehouse (Building 4145) in the eastern portion of Area 4100 is currently used....