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A Research Note on findings on Salem County agricultural complexes and outbuildings in Salem Coun... more A Research Note on findings on Salem County agricultural complexes and outbuildings in Salem County is presented. Sites include farmsteads which differ somewhat in settlement history and outbuildings. Farmhouses varied in form, size, material, and style, perhaps related to socioeconomic status or cultural origin. I found farm and domestic outbuildings of similar types, but always varying somehow farm to farm, showing individualized innovations on common themes of traditional building.
A previously undocumented patterned brickwork house was found in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem Coun... more A previously undocumented patterned brickwork house was found in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County, NJ. Once stuccoed, this coating has been wearing away, slowly revealing a banded pattern of vitrified bricks.
This article examines the particular designs called coronets in Salem County, NJ within the conte... more This article examines the particular designs called coronets in Salem County, NJ within the contexts of patterned brickwork architecture, their builders' social history, and the colonial settlement of the region.
This article documents the patterned brickwork Mayhew House built in 1762 and 1792 in Upper Pitts... more This article documents the patterned brickwork Mayhew House built in 1762 and 1792 in Upper Pittsgrove, Salem County. Here, a pattern known as a coronet was recently discovered after being hidden from public view for 228 years.
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A Research Note on findings on Salem County agricultural complexes and outbuildings in Salem Coun... more A Research Note on findings on Salem County agricultural complexes and outbuildings in Salem County is presented. Sites include farmsteads which differ somewhat in settlement history and outbuildings. Farmhouses varied in form, size, material, and style, perhaps related to socioeconomic status or cultural origin. I found farm and domestic outbuildings of similar types, but always varying somehow farm to farm, showing individualized innovations on common themes of traditional building.
A previously undocumented patterned brickwork house was found in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem Coun... more A previously undocumented patterned brickwork house was found in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County, NJ. Once stuccoed, this coating has been wearing away, slowly revealing a banded pattern of vitrified bricks.
This article examines the particular designs called coronets in Salem County, NJ within the conte... more This article examines the particular designs called coronets in Salem County, NJ within the contexts of patterned brickwork architecture, their builders' social history, and the colonial settlement of the region.
This article documents the patterned brickwork Mayhew House built in 1762 and 1792 in Upper Pitts... more This article documents the patterned brickwork Mayhew House built in 1762 and 1792 in Upper Pittsgrove, Salem County. Here, a pattern known as a coronet was recently discovered after being hidden from public view for 228 years.
Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit, eds., Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic, 2017
Though most studies on New Jersey African American historical sites have been carried out by arch... more Though most studies on New Jersey African American historical sites have been carried out by archaeologists , the approach here documented surviving above-ground resources, collecting data through architectural recording, cemetery survey, and archival research. In an overlapping of disciplines, the Marshalltown study utilized landscape and documentary archaeology approaches in a community-based study in order to identify people, their relationships, and the extent of the settlement. Most usefully, geographic information system (GIS) software was utilized to map and analyze the spatial and temporal patterns of community land development. Matching plotted land descriptions from roughly 250 deeds spanning a 100-year period to the cadastral map brought to light those who bought land, when, and where, and defined intracommunity spatial patterns. Linking land and buildings to a variety of public and private documents fleshed out the human story. Marshalltown provides an example of the ways ideologies of race and power shaped a landscape. There, land records reveal how elite Quaker landowners, who first enslaved and later manumitted a black labor force, and local and southern immigrant African American populations negotiated social and cultural inclusion and exclusion in Salem County, New Jersey.
Line drawings of a ca. 1850 African American school house in the Marshalltown Historic District i... more Line drawings of a ca. 1850 African American school house in the Marshalltown Historic District in Salem County, NJ
Line drawings of an African American church of the African Union Methodist Protestant connection ... more Line drawings of an African American church of the African Union Methodist Protestant connection in the Marshalltown Historic District, Salem County, NJ.
Marshalltown: A Landscape of Emancipation in Southwestern New Jersey, 2022
The history and significance of Marshalltown, an antebellum free-Black community in southwestern ... more The history and significance of Marshalltown, an antebellum free-Black community in southwestern New Jersey. This revised version of a portion of the Marshalltown Historic District National Register nomination is offered as a more reader-friendly document in hopes of raising public awareness and inspiring and gathering a community for Marshalltown’s preservation.
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