Orange County Chapter's 2019 Annual Banquet

Orange County Chapter's 2019 Annual Banquet

Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 11:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Fountains at the Wallkill Golf Club. 40 Sands Rd Middletown, Orange County, New York 10941

$30.00 per person

Cash Bar.

Please RSVP with payment by November 2nd to Stephanie Benson

(845) 796-0244, 358 Rock Hill Drive, Rock Hill, NY 12775.

Please make checks payable to IOCCNYSAA

Featured Banquet Speaker:

Archaeology of 19th-Century Tourism: Henrietta Wickham's Enfield Falls Hotel

by Sherene Baugher 

Over the last decade, archaeologists have begun to explore the archaeology of tourism. Sherene Baugher's presentation focuses on the role of a mid-19th century woman, Henrietta Wickham, and her creation of the middle-class tourist destination of Enfield Falls, near Ithaca, New York. In 1853, just five years after the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, Henrietta Wickham opened a summer resort with paths and overlooks to view majestic and breath-taking waterfalls. This was at a time when it was unusual for a woman to be a business owner and landscape designer.

With her team of students from Cornell, Sherene Baugher has excavated the remnants of Henrietta Wickham's hotel, the hotel's midden, and Mrs. Wickham’s home that are buried in Robert H. Treman State Park. The presentation for the Orange County Chapter discusses the objects unearthed in the dig, what these artifacts reveal about the site of Enfield Falls, and how the students worked with the local community and descendants of Enfield Falls to present these discoveries to the public in permanent exhibits in the Park’s Mill Museum.

THE ARCHAEOLOGIST Vol. 9 October 2019 has been sent to the membership.

Please let us know if you don't get your copy.

Ed Lenik's new book: "Ramapough Lenape Heritage"

The North Jersey Highlands Historical Society is pleased to announce publication of:

RAMAPOUGH LENAPE HERITAGE:

ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY & CULTURE:

10,500 B. C. TO THE PRESENT

BY EDWARD J. LENIK

With the publication of his fourth book on the Ramapough Lenape people of northern New Jersey and southeastern New York, archaeologist Edward J. Lenik celebrates a half century of research and investigation. Ramapough Lenape Heritage focuses on the archaeological evidence of continuous indigenous occupation Lenik and others have uncovered from early 20th century explorations by amateur archaeologists to the careful, scientific excavations and analyses of the late 20th and early 21st century professionals like himself. Much of the material in this book can be found only in cultural resource studies filed in New York and New Jersey state repositories.

The Stag Run Village site, the Trading Post site, the Sheffield Farm House site, the Indian Field Village site, Mountainside Farm and numerous open air campsites, workshops, lithic scatter and quarry sites are discussed. The mysterious Prehistoric Walls site in Sloatsburg, NY is presented in detail with new insights. Halifax or Green Mountain Valley in Mahwah, NJ is examined both archaeologically and historically using census data to identify some of its former occupants.

The 280-page book, printed in color, features13 tables and 128 illustrations including photographs, maps, field sketches and drawings.

Ramapough Lenape Heritage can be purchased for $20 from the North Jersey Highlands Historical Society Bookshop at Ringwood Manor State Park or can be ordered by sending a check for $20 plus $4 shipping and handling to North Jersey Highland Historical Society (NJHHS) at P.O. Box 248, Ringwood, NJ 07456.

Lenik’s 3 previous volumes are also available:
$10  Indians in the Ramapos. Survival, Persistence and Presence (1999)
$20  Ramapough Mountain Indians: People, Places and Cultural Traditions (2011)
$20  Keepers of the Pass, The Ramapough Lenape Indians (2016)

BOOK SIGNING  at the Ringwood Manor Coffee Shop

Saturday October 26, 2019

1 pm to 4 pm

Ringwood State Park

Ringwood, NJ

The North Jersey Highlands Historical Society (NJHHS), a Ringwood Manor State Park friends group, invites you to a book signing to announce the publication of a new book by author and archaeologist Edward J. Lenik.

Stop in and help us celebrate half a century of archaeological research by Ed Lenik.
The Coffee Shop is located opposite the Park Office at Ringwood Manor State Park, 1304 Sloatsburg Rd, Ringwood, NJ 07456