New Jersey

Britton-Rapp Barn (Holland Township Barn Survey #13), 235 Riegelsville Road, Holland Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (40.571453, -75.152068)

a) Primary Barn Felling Dates: Summer 1827, Winter 1830/1, Summer 1831, Winter 1831/2, Summer 1832

Site Master 1663-1831 (Eastern hemlock) BRNJx1 (t = 9.73 PA011; 9.14 PA004; CT002 7.45).

The Britton/Rapp Barn is a seven-bay, ground-level, swing beam barn with a two-bay haw mow, two wagon entry bays, a bay for stabling horses, and a bay for stabling cows/ small livestock.

Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the barn was built from timbers felled over a short period of time from the summer of 1827 through to the summer of 1832.

Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2017 The Tree-Ring Dating of Britton-Rapp Barn (Holland Township Barn Survey #13), 235 Riegelsville Road, Holland Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, unpublished Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory archive report 2017/18

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