Beverwyck Site

  • Also Known As: Beaverwyck also Beaverwick also Beaverhoudt also Ferme de M. Lott
  • Also Known As: Red Barracks

  • Vicinity: SE of jct of US 46 and S Beverwyck Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Site

The Beverwyck Site is located in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township; Morris County, New Jersey. The Beverwyck Site consists of the intact archaeological remains of residential buildings, agricultural outbuildings, and landscape features of Beverwyck, a mid-eighteenth to mid-twentieth century agricultural estate. Historically, part of a 2000(-f)-acre property, the Beverwyck Site (as identified by archaeological investigations to date) consists of the core area of the former Beverwyck estate. While the occupation of the estate spans the mid-eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, the height of the estate's prosperity was reached during the fourth quarter of the eighteenth century. Between 1772 and 1803, the estate served as a focal point in the social and political spheres of the Revolutionary War-era New Jersey. During this period, the estate employed the use of an enslaved labor force in its daily operations, hi 1803, parts of the estate were reconstructed after a devastating fire consumed at least three of the estate's buildings, including the manor house and a second dwelling. The estate never regained its Revolutionary War-era notoriety as a prosperous plantation, but the estate continued to function as a large agricultural property in Morris County throughout the nineteenth century. - NRHP, 3 March 2004


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
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Particulars for Beverwyck Site:
Cultural Affiliation African American
Historic Use Agricultural fields
Historic Use Agricultural outbuildings
Area of Significance Agriculture
Cultural Affiliation Black American
Area of Significance Commerce
Cultural Affiliation Dutch American
Area of Significance Engineering
Area of Significance Historic and non-aboriginal
Criteria Historic Event
Criteria Information Potential
Cultural Affiliation Irish-English
Historic Use Manufacturing facility
Level of Significance National
Area of Significance Politics-government
Historic Use Processing
Historic Use Secondary structure
Historic Use Single dwelling
Sight Category Site
Crime Slavery
Area of Significance Social History
Owner State
Historic Use Storage



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 14th May 2004

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Beverwyck Site
Registry Address: SE of jct. of US 46 and S. Beverwyck Rd.
Registry Number: 04000430
Resource Type: Site
Owner: State
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 5
Contributing Sites: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Historic and non-aboriginal, Social history, Black, Politics-government, Engineering, Agriculture, Commerce
Applicable Criteria: Event, Information Potential
Cultural Affiliation: Irish-English, Enslaved African, Dutch
Significant Year: 1759, 1772, 1803
Historic Function: Domestic, Agriculture, subsistence, Industry, processing, extraction
Historic Sub-Function: Secondary structure, Agricultural outbuildings, Single dwelling, Processing, Agricultural fields, Storage, Manufacturing facility
Current Function: Work in progress
Current Sub-Function:

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