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Subject: [GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES] New Jersey Historical Documents andArtifacts Damaged in Flood
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:04:13 -0700

New Jersey Historical Documents and Artifacts Damaged in Flood

Nearly 1,000 priceless Revolutionary War era historical objects and
documents were damaged last week. Antique furniture is now being sprayed in
an attempt to stop the mold, and soggy piles of documents from the late
1700s
have been frozen in an attempt to preserve them. Meanwhile, state
bureaucrats are involved in a high-level blame game.

A New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection official defended
efforts to protect the museum collection at the state-owned Steuben House in
River Edge, where rising floodwaters from the recent nor'easter caused an
estimated $1.5 million in damages. State legislators and members of the
Bergen County Historical Society, which owns the collection, are blaming the
department's Division of Parks and Forestry, which operates the house and is
responsible for securing items during a storm.

Amy Cradic, assistant commissioner of natural and historic resources with
the DEP, said the on-site employee, Andrew Anderson, spent two days moving
furniture and other artifacts to the second floor and the attic. "We took
appropriate action based on our experience with past floods and the
information available about the storm," she said. "It was an extraordinary
weather event."

Sadly, that was not enough. There was sufficient room to move the items to a
higher floor in the house. Tim Adriance of the historical society said,
There were plenty of volunteers available." Members of the historical
society even offered to help April 15 during the storm, but the Division of
Parks and Forestry said that no assistance was necessary.
Once the storm was over, the finger-pointing began.

You can read more about this sad story in the NorthJersey.com web site at
http://tinyurl.com/2d9a37.

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