Final Cultural Landscape Report: Pahaquarry Copper Mine
Burns Chavez SR and Clemensen AB. 1995. Final Cultural Landscape Report: Pahaquarry Copper Mine. Cultural Landscape Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Denver, Colorado
This two-volume report concerns the Pahaquarry Copper site of the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area. At the time of the report, the site was managed by the National Park Service as a limited day use site. Visitors hike trails around the site, visit the mine ruins and tunnels, and access the Appalachian trail from the site. Ranger guided walks through the tunnels were provided until 1989, at which point, it was determined that the mine tunnels were unsafe. At the time of the report, the site lacks any developed facilities or preservation program. The report provides direction for preservation treatment and facility development, evaluating and documenting the significance, integrity, character-defining features, and existing condition of the resource. The site, like many in the Delaware Water Gap area, has seen a variety of uses, from mining, timbering, to a Boy Scout camp. Primarily, the site has significance for its use as a copper mine over several distinct periods of activity, providing insight into the social, economic, and cultural facets of copper prospecting across three centuries. Volume I provides the bulk of the report, while volume II is dedicated to appendices of natural, cultural, historical, and archaeological investigations of the area dating back to 1862.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Burns Chavez, Steve; Clemensen, A.
- Date of Issue
- 1995-08
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- DEWA , NER
- Keywords
- boy scouts, copper mine, cultural landscape, Delaware Valley, Delaware Water Gap, mining, Pahaquarry Copper Mine, quarry, timbering
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 300068: Pahaquarry Copper Mines