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Site Form, Site 28BU411, for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

This document includes the site forms for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst as well as associated maps, references, and artifact descriptions and drawings. It also includes an addendum to site form Bu526.

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 on information derived from historical, archaeological, ethnographic and architectural investigations on JB MDL. It specifies management strategies for known historic properties and methods for identifying and evaluating as yet unidentified cultural resources. This ICRMP is the implementing document for the JB MDL CR management program during 2014-2019. It outlines specific procedures for consultation with the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office (NJ HPO), the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), the National Park Service (NPS), federally recognized Native American tribes, and other potential partners in cultural resource management. The NHPA requires that federal installations identify, evaluate the historic significance of and nominate significant historic properties to the NR. The historic properties identified on JB MDL include eligible and potentially eligible archaeological sites and historic architecture (Table 1.1). The properties include one NHL (Hangar No. One), two NR listed properties (Hangar No. One and the Hanover Furnace Site), three NR eligible historic districts (Lighter than Air (LTA) Historic District, Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Missile Site, and the Scott Plaza Historic District), four NR eligible historic archaeological sites (28-Bu-458, 28-Bu-459, 28-Bu-473, and 28-Bu-542), and six individually NR eligible buildings (3135, 5353, 3209, 9004, Building 120, SAGE Complex). One additional archaeological site known as the Cherry Valley Tavern (28-Bu-413) was found eligible for the NR and excavated in 1993. Two additional historic properties known as Quarters 1 and Quarters 2, both mid-nineteenth century farmhouses were identified as potentially eligible for historic architecture and archaeology (Zerbe 1990). Two additional historic architectural resources found eligible for the NR and listed with the NJ HPO are no longer extant. They include a Railroad Historic District (Buildings 3103-3106, 3111, 3115, 3116, 3123 and 3125) and Building 9726. JB MDL cultural resources also include 91.76 cubic feet of artifacts recovered from archaeological investigations within the McGuire and Dix areas.

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 culturally affiliated with the collections, to draft Section 6 Summary Letters for each installation, and to conduct physical inventories of any collections that contain human skeletal remains. This report conveys the results of the collections research completed to assist Fort Dix in complying with the Section 6 Summary requirements of NAGPRA.

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 project entailed visits to archaeological data banks, a review of the extensive survey of Fort Dix undertaken in 1985 and other secondary sources, and analysis of aerial photographic data. Field survey involved a walkover of the entire project area, and the excavation of 627 shovel tests. The shovel testing program recovered a small quantity of historic material, the bulk of it from the site of the town of Pointville, a community which developed in the early 19th century and was razed c.1940. No prehistoric materials were encountered. Field investigation located two historic farmstead sites in the southwestern part of the project area. A supplementary program of investigation was undertaken at Pointville after completion of the initial survey. A backhoe was used to test for the location and to establish the archaeological integrity of the Cherry Valley Tavern/Pointville Hotel. The site was found to be well preserved, with substantial foundations and a prolific artifact deposit of the first half of the 19th century. Detailed examination of the east side of Texas Avenue at Pointville located the probable sites of the mid 19th century church, a house and other features, probably of 20th century date. The Cherry Valley Tavern/Pointville Hotel Site [28-BU-413] is considered to be a significant resource, eligible for Pinelands Designation, and for inclusion in the State and Federal Registers. Options are presented for mitigating the impact of the force main project on this site through a program of archaeological data recovery, or alternatively to avoid the site by a revison to the alignment. The archaeological integrity of the site of Pointville as a whole remains unclear, but it is recommended that a program of archaeological monitoring should be undertaken during force main construction here, accompanied by minor revisions to the alignment to avoid the cemetery area. The two farmstead sites will be excluded from the project impact area and no additional actions are required at this time to protect them.