NJDOT Non-Technical Summaries
Multiple Projects, Statewide, New Jersey
Since 2004, the New Jersey Department of Transportation has been issuing “cultural resource digests,” popular booklets aimed at communicating to the general public the results of historical, archaeological and historic architectural studies required by historic preservation law. These brief, heavily illustrated booklets, typically between 4 and 12 pages in length, offer a series of fascinating vignettes on a variety of topics where transportation improvements have come into direct contact with historic resources. In most cases, the creation of these booklets serves as one of a range of mitigation measures intended to offset adverse project impacts, usually involving the destruction of all or part of a significant historic or archaeological resource. Public reaction to the digests has been uniformly positive.
Our firm designed the graphic design template that all of the cultural resource digests follow. We have completed more than a dozen of these booklets on subjects ranging from abandoned railroad facilities and pottery factories to a boat works and sites of Native American occupation.