Howell Living History Farm Archaeological Field School
Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey
Throughout the past two decades, Hunter Research has supplied a range of preservation planning and historical and archaeological investigative services to the Howell Living History Farm, the Mercer County Park Commission’s nationally renowned public history facility and historical park. In the summer of 2015 the Howell Farm retained our firm to organize a three-week archaeology camp, open to high school students in the local community. Under professional direction approximately 20 students learned the basics of excavation, recording and artifact processing and identification on the mid-18th-century house site of John Phillips, the original settler on the Howell Farm property in Hopewell Township’s Pleasant Valley. The project generated extensive, positive media coverage and received a New Jersey Historic Preservation Award for public archaeology in 2016. All work was conducted with the approval of the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office and in compliance with the New Jersey Register of Historic Places Act.
