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AT FORT MONMOUTH, NEW JERSEY: CONTEXT FOR COLD WAR ERA, REVISION OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES DOCUMENTATION, AND SURVEY OF EVANS AREA AND SECTIONS OF CAMP CHARLES WOOD by Mary Beth Reed Mark Swanson NEW SOUTH ASSOCIATES Stone Mountain, Georgia Subcontractor for Geo-Marine, Inc. and Rebecca Procter Marsha Prior June 1996 |
NUMBER 125 Geo-Marine, Inc. 550 East Fifteenth Street Plano, Texas 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District 819 Taylor Street Fort Worth, Texas
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CONTRACT DATA
This document was prepared under Contract Number DACA63-93-D-0014, Deliver Order Number 0103 (GMI Project Number 1114-103), with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, 819 Taylor Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76102-0300. These Web pages were prepared by InfoAge using volunteer time and resources to preserve Camp Evans history.
MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
Evaluation of selected cultural resources was carried out for the Evans and Camp Charles Wood areas of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in order to implement the responsibilities of the Fort Monmouth installation command for assessment and appropriate disposition of cultural resources located in areas subject to the Defense Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-510), 1993 authorization. Four tasks were outlined by the contract: to produce a historic overview of the role of Fort Monmouth in the Cold War era; to update and reassess the documentation of historic properties on the installation, including Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation; to survey selected segments of the Camp Charles Wood and Evans areas for cultural resources; and to relocate and evaluate cultural properties identified or predicted by previous archeological work.
Historical documentation revealed the extensive and significant role played by Fort Monmouth in the development of communications technology and space exploration, with important connections to the political and international events of the Cold War period. Updating of the historic properties inventory documented the presence of 39 buildings within the Camp Charles Wood area and 147 buildings, structures, or equipment/antennas at the Evans area. Of these documented properties, 26 properties and one archeological site in the Evans area are included in, or eligible for inclusion in, the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and no properties in the Camp Charles Wood area are eligible for inclusion in the NRHP. In addition, an attempt was made to document the current NRHP nomination process for the Project Diana site; however, this material is not currently available from the State of New Jersey Historic Preservation Office.
Archeological survey covering approximately 247 acres in these two areas of Fort Monmouth was undertaken and testing was completed for one historic site in the Evans area. The survey failed to locate significant cultural resources potentially eligible for inclusion in the NRHP aside from the early twentieth-century site that was tested for archeological remains. It is recommended that additional archival and archeological investigation be undertaken to assess the nature and potential eligibility of historic site 28-Mo-248, and that no further work be done in other surveyed areas in the Camp Charles Wood and Evans areas.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many persons assisted with the completion of this project and our thanks are due them. First and foremost is Mr. Stephen Austin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, for his continued advice, guidance, and management direction throughout the project. Personnel at Fort Monmouth who assisted in gaining access to survey areas and access to pertinent persons for interviews, and who supplied important and needed information include Messrs. Vince Migliore, Christopher Kencik, and Frank Cuiffo of CECOM BRAC Division; Mr. George Fitzmaier of Master Planning and Real Property Division; and Mr. Mike Ruane, Base Trans Coordinator. Mr. Kencik, in particular, was extremely helpful during the archeological phase of the project by getting needed maps and information to the field crew. Mr. Robert Meloscaglia and Ms. Helen Schiavo of Master Planning and Real Property Division were also helpful in the research.
Mr. Sam Stine, Dr. Stanley Kronenberg, Mr. John William Marchetti, Mr. Fred Gentner, Mr. Michael Guigno, and Mr. John H. DeWitt made important contributions to our understanding of development and research activities at the Evans area. Fort Monmouth’s base historian, Dr. Richard Bingham, contributed to our research and assisted with data collection on the Dymaxion Development Units by steering inquiries to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborne, Michigan, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Santa Barbara, California.
A special thank-you goes to Ms. Renata Guttman CCA, Quebec, Canada, for her assistance with sources on the J.G. White Engineering Corporation. Ms. Phyllis Smith of the David Sarnoff Research Center’s Public Affairs Office was equally helpful with an article on the Marconi installation at New Brunswick.
We acknowledge with deep gratitude the work of field personnel for the archeological survey. Headed by Ms. Debbie Marcaurelle, the crew, Ms. Lori Chace, Mr. Clark Moses, Ms. Andrea Ohl, and Ms. Peggy Wishart, fought off mosquitos, poison ivy, and walls of briars in order to fully examine all portions of the survey areas.
Several personnel at Geo-Marine, Inc., deserve recognition. Mr. Duane E. Peter directed the overall management of this task. Ms. Denise Pemberton generated the computerized format for the layout and design of this book. Very special thanks go to Dr. Marsha Prior for assistance in editing the final document.
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