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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Preservation: Artifacts and Curation

Most of the features below 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

Systemwide Archeological Inventory Progam

 

CURATION

A Map of Millbrook's Past (See below).

Bit by Bit: Curation in a National Recreation Area CRM Magazine: Saved from the Dam Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Issue (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) By cultural resource manager Dorothy Moon.

 

ARTIFACTS

Grocer, storekeeper (STG: Spring/Summer 2004 Vol. 26, No. 1) The Daily Ledger for Millbrook's General Store
Additional material
Cash, Credit, and Convenience: Reinterpreting Millbrook Village's Economy 1860-1880

A Map of Millbrook's Past (STG: Spring 1997 Vol. 19, No. 1) Preservation of an 1852 map of Warren County for Millbrook Village. By park historian Susan Kopczynski.

Peace and War: a Find in the Park (STG: Summer 2001 Vol. 23, No. 2) A colonial stoveplate (above, left) discovered and identified in the park. By park historian Susan Kopczynski.

 

Artifacts and Archeology
Native Americans | Colonial and Historic Times

 
View of the sky through hemlock treetops  

Did You Know?
... that hemlock groves in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area are threatened by a non-native insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Hemlocks provide shade for spectacular rhodondenron, for trout streams, and for native wildflowers. As hemlocks weaken and die, they are cut down for your safety.
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Last Updated: July 08, 2009 at 16:17 EST