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Hunter Research, Inc. is a consulting firm offering a full range of cultural resource services to public and private clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States.  The company has been in existence since 1986 and has established a reputation with clients and regulatory agencies for high-quality, effective and efficient work. The foundation of our company is a belief that the physical remains of the past can and should make a vital contribution to everyday life.


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120 West State Street
Trenton, New Jersey 08608
tel: 609.695.0122
fax: 609.695.0147
hri@hunterresearch.com


Services offered in-house include historical and archival research, prehistoric, historic and industrial archaeological investigation, historic architectural survey and evaluation, historic resource management planning, and a wide variety of public outreach programs.  Through a well-developed network of subconsultants, the firm can also provide expertise in related fields, such as underwater archaeology, geomorphology, remote sensing, materials conservation and museum display.

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Even in the most redeveloped urban landscape...

May 01, 2020

As seen from Route 29 running alongside the Delaware River, the downtown Trenton skyline is changing quite a bit these days.  The cluster of State office buildings on South Warren Street, dominated by the Hughes Justice Complex, is being supplemented by the ongoing construction of a new Taxation Building directly in front of the Labor & Industry Building on John Fitch Way. 

Remarkably, prior to construction, some fairly substantial traces of Native American occupation were found on the site of the new Taxation Building.  Several pits and hearths and numerous artifacts, dating mostly from 400 to 700 years ago, were documented by a Hunter Research archaeological team working over the winter of 2018-2019.

This location, on a floodplain terrace at the mouth of Assunpink Creek, would have been a choice spot in the landscape for local Lenape inhabitants and their forebears, and ample evidence of a sprawling Indian presence once existed here.  Now largely destroyed by urban development, occasional pockets of intact archaeological remains still survive – one such pocket was sampled right there in what used to the forecourt of the Labor & Industry Building.

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Hunter Research, Inc.
120 West State Street
Trenton, New Jersey 08608
tel: 609.695.0122
fax: 609.695.0147
hri@hunterresearch.com