Today, only thirteen of them shown on the map still stand. By 1900, many buildings had started to disappear. Even though the ironworks had been out of production for seven years by the time the map was commissioned, all of its essential structures including workers' housing remained intact. The background of the map is light tan.Ĭuratorial Remarks The 1853 lithographed map with vignettes of the Howell Works provides an extremely accurate view of a New Jersey bog iron operation that peaked before the financial panic of 1837. Water has been picked out in blue, and trees in green. Hand coloring has been added to the map and vignettes. The views are identified by letter and compass direction, with the structures again named. Three vignettes at the top and sides of the map depict the appearance of the buildings from three vantage points lettered A, B, and C and marked on the map. These nineteen buildings are all titled on the map, eight others not being identified. Twenty-seven buildings are depicted, including the blast furnace, coal depot, office, store, carpenter shop, enamelling furnace, carriage house, dwellings, bakery, and smith shop southeast of the stream, four grist and saw mills on millraces originating at the two dams, then four ranges of houses and a frame church northwest of the stream. A stream impounded by two dams runs from northwest to southeast diagonally across the map. Description The center of the lithograph contains a very detailed map of the Howell Iron Works located in Howell Township, Monmouth County.
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