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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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Waln's Mill - Chapter Closed

June 19, 2020

Waln’s Mill, tucked away on Crosswicks Creek in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, is one of the best-preserved and best-interpreted historic mill sites in the Delaware Valley.   The gristmill and the fine Waln family mansion, built in 1774, are the highlights of the historically evocative, County-owned and managed village of Walnford set within a 36-acre tract of timeless countryside.

Restored with painstaking care in the mid-1990s, the mill building contains a remarkable array of late 19th and early 20th-century mill machinery and grist-milling equipment, some of which can be run today using electrical power.  To understand how water-powered gristmills were designed and worked, there are few better places to tour than Waln’s Mill.

Hunter Research conducted archaeological investigations at Waln’s Mill in the mid-1990s in conjunction with the mill restoration program with funding support from the Monmouth County Park System and the New Jersey Historic Trust.  This work built on excavations conducted more than a decade prior by well-known New Jersey archaeologist, Budd Wilson.  Final reporting of both the Hunter Research and Wilson explorations languished until 2019 when funding for report completion was made available by the Friends of the Monmouth County Park System.

A comprehensive report now details the history and archaeology of this fascinating mill site, which has its origins in the mid-1730s and involved three different gristmill buildings (two of them destroyed by fire), a fulling mill and a sawmill.   This note is titled “chapter closed,” rather than “book closed,” since the archaeology of Waln’s Mill is still not fully understood and the location of the original 18th-century mill still remains to be pinpointed.

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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