Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory - Maryland


New Jersey

Shafer Farmstead

Whidden House, Skillman, New Jersey (40.412716, -74.719942)


Felling Date: Primary HouseWinter 1829/30


Timber Mean 1707-1829 (white oak) WHNJ3 (t = 5.34 OMBx1; 4.94 SVNJx1; 4.74 HAMx1).


Two timber joists were saved from the Whidden House prior to its demolition. Dendrochronological analysis has shown that one of the joists was felled in the winter of 1829/30.

Worthington and Seiter 2020 The Tree-Ring Dating of the Whidden House, Skillman, New Jersey Tree-Ring Laboratory 2020/05.


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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