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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
People: Lifeways

Most of these features were first published in the park's newsletter, Spanning the Gap (STG) or in the Cultural Resource Management magazine, CRM. STG and CRM features are pdf files.
For related pages in this website, and for links to other websites for each feature,
look up the feature under:

NEWS: Park Newspaper-Features from Back Issues, by year (STG features) or under:
NEWS: Park Newspaper-CRM Magazine, by topic (CRM features

 Native American People and Colonial American People (under Collections: Archeology)

 

Colonial and Early American Lifeways

Cultural Connections (STG: Summer 1998 Vol. 18 No. 2) Archeological evidence of human settlement within the park's boundaries in prehistoric and colonial times. By park archeologist John R. Wright.

Maple Sugaring at Millbrook Village
Background of the late winter event.
Additional material
Map and Guide to Millbrook Village

Military Trail 
Guide to numbered signposts on this historic one-mile trail
Additional material
Who is buried in the slave cemetery?

 
A young man in colonial uniform, with a musket  

Did You Know?
... that in the 1750s, the northwest border of New Jersey (now Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area) was a frontier of the English colonies. In the French & Indian (Seven Years) War, a string of forts protected these settlements. The sites of seven of these outposts are in the park.
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Last Updated: August 14, 2009 at 17:41 EST