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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.

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.

HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. (HDR) was contracted by Michael Baker Corporation to conduct archaeological investigations on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL), Burlington County, New Jersey. The proposed hardening of overruns for Runway 06-24 requires changing the alignment of Texas Avenue. This realignment will affect a portion of site 28-BU-542 within the historic Pointville town site. Alternative alignments were suggested for Texas Avenue that would avoid the site; these were ultimately rejected, however, due to safety concerns. Phase II investigations located two structures: a historic foundation and a privy. Other areas of the Phase II investigation yielded artifacts from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Based on these findings site, site 28-BU-542 was determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. From April 5 to April 29, 2011 HDR conducted Phase III data recovery of the portion of site 28-BU-542 within the proposed Texas Avenue realignment area of potential effect (APE). The purpose of the Phase III effort was to mitigate potential impacts to the site by recovering the available archaeological data in a controlled manner and to assess the potential for the establishment of a historic archaeological district within the APE and the larger Pointville site area. Investigations identified 12 historic features in the APE. These were two foundations with cellars, two probable privies, cesspits, a backyard area, sections of wood and ceramic pipe, and small refuse pits. All of the historic features, including those identified during Phase II investigations, were created or reused during the 1930s and 1940s. Features that originated in the nineteenth century were apparently cleaned of earlier artifacts prior to their last uses as refuse dumps. Consequently, deep features such as cellar holes and privies lacked stratified archaeological deposits and all cultural features lacked remains from the site’s previously assumed period of significance (circa 1800-1900). Artifacts representing the site’s nineteenth century occupation were limited to approximately 12 inches of soil in general yard and lot areas. The designation of a Pointville National Historic Archaeological District, of which site 28-BU-542 is a contributing element, is recommended as feasible. However, further information is needed to identify all potential themes within such a district and criteria for evaluation of contributing and noncontributing elements within the district. The available archaeological and archival data for the affected portion of site 28-BU-542 have been extensively sampled and analyzed. These actions have minimized proposed impacts to the site that would occur from realignment of Texas Avenue. No further cultural resource management actions are recommended for the excavated portions of site 28-BU-542 prior to the reconstruction of Texas Avenue.

TRC Mariah Associates Inc. of Albuquerque, New Mexico performed Phase II site testing at four historic sites at McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County, New Jersey. Research was undertaken as part of the cultural resource management responsibilities of the Air Mobility Command, not in anticipation of a specific project. Site testing followed an archaeological site locational survey (Headquarters, Air Mobility Command 1995). The four historic sites are identified as 28-Bu-473, Historic Site Locality 9, 28-Bu-474, Historic Site Locality 10, 28-Bu-472, Historic Site Locality 1-6, 28-Bu-471, Approach Lights Site. Of these four historic sites, only one, 28-Bu-473, had an intact subsurface brick foundation that is associated with structures formerly standing on this parcel. A dense concentration of artifacts was recovered, including glass indicative of occupation by a household prior to the condemnation of the land for military purposes at the time of World War II. This site is therefore recommended as eligible to the National Register of Historic Places on the basis of criterion (d). The data that may be recovered from this site will relate to the occupation of a rural crossroads community in southern New Jersey in the first half of the twentieth century. Although most of the artifacts that were found here date from the twentieth century, the site is at the location of earlier structures, as indicated on nineteenth-century maps. Any information on nineteenth century occupation of the site will contribute to understanding the former community of Pointville, and will add to what is already known from archival sources and the data recovery conducted at a taven/hotel site nearby (Hunter Research, Inc. 1993). Sites 28-Bu-474 and 28-Bu-472 were heavily impacted and there is little integrity to either site. Therefore, neither site is recommended to the National Register of Historic Places. 28-Bu-471 was an artifact scatter with no features. The scatter was located mainly in a two-track road, and no integrity remains to the site. 28-Bu-471 is therefore recommended as not eligible to the National Register of Historic Places.

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

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 maps are located after each table. Full Volume I report can be found in tDAR at: https://core.tdar.org/document/438622 The full Volume II report can be found in tDAR at: https://core.tdar.org/document/438623