Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory - Maryland


Maryland

Cremona Farm

Cremona Farm, Mechanicsville, Maryland (38.455423, -76.657367)


Felling Dates: SmokehouseWinter 1829/30

Felling Dates: Barn 2Spring 1825 Winter 1825/6

Felling Dates: Barn 1Spring 1832 Winter 1832/3

Felling Dates: Livestock BarnSpring 1831


Site Master 1676-1832 (oak) CRMDx1 (t = 13.86 MDZ7; 11.30 ESHORE2; 10.14 LMP).


Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the smokehouse was constructed from timbers felled in the winter of 1829/30. Barn Two was felled with timbers from the spring of 1825 and winter 1825/6 and Barn One was built using timbers felled in the spring of 1832 and the winter of 1832/3.

 

Worthington and Seiter 2019 The Tree-Ring Dating of Three Buildings at Cremona Farm, Mechanicsville, Maryland" Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory 2019/16.

Smokehouse (photograph credit: Dennis Pogue)


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Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory

Proprietors
Michael Worthington
Jane Seiter, Ph.D

25 E. Montgomery St.
Baltimore, MD 21230

410-929-1520

michael@dendrochronology.com