Archaeological
Team 2000
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is funding the Route 18 Extension Project and the archaeological data recovery program. Key FHWA staff involved with the Project includes Robin Schroeder, Program Operations Manager, Randell Prescott, Assistant Engineering Coordinator, and Amy Fox, Environmental Coordinator.
The Raritan Landing Archaeological Project Team includes the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and several firms under contract to NJDOT. The Department's Project Manager is John McCleerey. NJDOT's Supervisory Archaeologist for the project is David Zmoda. Mr. Zmoda has been involved in the archaeology of Raritan Landing since the Rutgers University 1979 excavations.
Slip-decorated buff earthenware pieplate recovered at Raritan Landing in 1979. This type of ceramic was manufactured in England from about 1670 to 1795.
Gannett Fleming, Inc. is the prime contractor designing the Route 18 Extension Project, and is also serving as the lead firm administering the Raritan Landing Archaeological program. Paul Nowicki is the overall project director, and is in the firm's South Plainfield, New Jersey, office. John Martin is serving as Gannett Fleming's assistant project manager and one of the firm's archaeologists. He and Richard Veit, from the firm's Hammonton, New Jersey, office, are supervising the excavation of one prehistoric site (28Mi121) and four historic sites (Peter Low Meadow Property, Dumont/Low Meadow Property, Duyckinck/Van Ranst Meadow Property, and a possible Revolutionary War camp site) within the Raritan Landing project area. Gannett Fleming is also analyzing all prehistoric materials recovered during the archaeological excavations. Bob Wiencek is supervising the processing of artifacts from the prehistoric site and the encampment area. The Gannett Fleming team designed, maintains, and hosts the Raritan Landing Web site.
The Florence, New Jersey, office of URS Corporation is providing overall technical management for the project. Mr. Terry Klein is serving as Project Director and is managing the archaeological data recovery. Steve Tull and Ed Morin are supervising URS's component of the project, which involves excavation of four historic sites (Bodine/Blair Property, Duyckinck/Van Ranst Property, Hardenbrook/Duyckinck/Letson Property, and the Jones Blacksmith Shop Property). Meta Janowitz and George Miller of URS are supervising all laboratory work involving the project's historic sites and artifacts recovered from within the Landing.
Delft tile fragment identical to tiles still in place around the fireplaces in the Cornelius Low House, now the Middlesex County Museum.
Hartgen Archaeological Associates, Inc. is a woman-owned firm located in Troy, New York. Under the direction of Karen Hartgen, the firm is excavating one historic site (Flatt property) and will conduct all future archaeological monitoring during the project's construction phase. Hartgen Archaeological Associates field crews will also assist in the excavations of other sites within the project area.
JMS Video of Vincentown, New Jersey, is responsible for special project photography and development of a video about the entire archaeological project. New South Associates of Stone Mountain, Georgia will be conducting all project floral analyses.
John Milner Associates, Inc. archaeologists Rebecca Yamin and Wade
Catts are supervising the excavations of five historic sites (Reade/Bray
Property, Low/Pool Meadow Property, Low/Waterfield/Post Property, Bray/Letson
Property, and the Bodine/French Meadow Property). Dr. Yamin worked at
Raritan Landing during the 1979 Rutgers University excavations and wrote
her dissertation on the archaeology of this historic community in 1988.
John Milner Associates is also managing all project site tours. John Milner
Associates staff are under the direction of Daniel Roberts, the company's
Director of Cultural Resources, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Dr.
Yamin works in the firm's Philadelphia office and Mr. Catts is a Senior
Archaeologist from the West Chester office.