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Site Form, Site 28BU135 and 28BU136, 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.

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 winter of 1982. The survey was administered by the National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Region, Philadelphia and was conducted by the Cultural Resource Group of Louis Berger & Associates, Inc. The survey identified three prehistoric sites from the sampled areas. These are believed to be significant because they may be representative of Late Archaic to Early Woodland Transient Camps which were part of a larger, settlement-subsistence system which involved seasonal rounds between the vicinity of the Abbott Farm Prehistoric Sites in Trenton in summer and the Pinelands vicinity in winter. In addition to the sites located, recommendations were made, based on environmental parameters, as to which areas of the base may contain additional prehistoric sites. The historic archaeological component of the survey identified the remains of three potential 19th century farmsteads which were considered potentially significant for understanding the changing relationship of rural farmsteads to urban areas, improved transportation networks, and increases in the level of technology. Areas where the potential exists for finding other historic archaeological sites were also delineated based on the historic background research. The architectural survey produced a listing of significant buildings on the base which included a cluster of the last remaining structures from the 1917 construction of the base. These buildings are being nominated for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. All surveyed structures were documented on Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) and Historic American Buildings Survey Forms and were evaluated by both the National Register Criteria and the Army Manual No. 5-801-1 criteria and recommendations were made for their treatment. A separate copy of Appendix A can be found in tDAR at: https://core.tdar.org/document/438599