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“ONE OF THE NATION’S MOST IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES”

NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK

ABBOTT FARM

IN HAMILTON, NEW JERSEY

TOPIC OF ARCHAEOLOGY PRESENTATION

TRENTON (NJ) –Three respected archaeology and anthropology experts will lead a public discussion on one of the most important archaeological sites in the United States, the Abbott Farm Landmark district located in Hamilton Township.

The program takes pace at 2 PM, May 17 at Mercer County Park’s recently designated nature center located at 157 Westcott Avenue at the entrance of Roebling Park, in Hamilton, NJ. .

The subject of over 100 books and publication and the site of ongoing archaeological exploration, Abbott Farm is a focal point of research that traces several thousand years of human occupation from the Paleo-Indian period through the colonial to the present.

The site is named after Charles Conrad Abbott, a nineteenth-century Trenton archaeologist, author of numerous books, medical doctor, and a field assistant with the Peabody Museum. His research at his home along the Crosswicks Creek area marsh near Trenton was the catalyst for early American archaeology explorations and a series of important excavations on the site.

A National Historic Landmark, the highest designation bestowed by the Federal Government, Abbott Farm is recognized by the New Jersey State Museum as “one of the most significant prehistoric sites in the Northeast,” and named “one of the nation’s most important archaeological sites” by the National Park Service.

The May 17 program will be lead by three leaders of state archaeology: Richard Hunter of Hunter Research, Karen Flinn of the New Jersey State Museum, and Michael Stewart of Temple University.

Archaeologist Richard W. Hunter is the president of the Trenton based Hunter Research, Inc., which, in addition to providing a recent study on Abbott Farm, has led important New Jersey research work for the State of New Jersey.

Karen Flynn is an assistant curator of Archaeology and Ethnology at the New Jersey State Museum, which boasts a long connection with research at Abbott Farm through its association with famed archaeologist and Abbott Farm research Dorothy Cross.

Michael Steward, a professor of anthropology at Temple University, the author of studies on the native populations of the Delaware Valley and involved with ongoing research regarding Abbott Farm.

The event, presented by the Friends of the Hamilton Trenton Bordentown Marsh as part of a marsh awareness weekend, is free and open to the public.

The Friends of the Hamilton Trenton Bordentown Marsh is a project of the Delaware and Raritan Greenway. For more visit marsh-friends.org or drgreenway.org or call 609-924-4646.