APPENDIX D Cultural Resources Survey Report - US Environmental ...

archaeological resources.
Numerous cultural resources surveys have been conducted in the vicinity of the APE (GAI
Consultants, Inc. 1983; Mounier 1984; McCormick, Taylor & Associates 1997; Hunter Research,
Inc. 2000; URS 2003; Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. 2009) of which one identified
archaeological resources in the vicinity of the APE (Hunter Research, Inc. 2000). In a Phase IA
cultural resources survey conducted 400 feet southwest of the APE, Hunter Research (2000)
identified a stone retaining wall and earthen berm that once fronted Tammany Fish House. Hunter
Research (2000) recommended the resource eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic
Places under Criteria A and D given its association with the development of early nineteenth-century
political organizations with a strongly “democratic” and Jeffersonian flavor that later became
associated with organized labor and its potential to yield important information on the layout of the
property and buildings associated with the Tammany Fish House.
National and State Register Eligible or Listed Historic Properties
No historic properties are located within the APE (Figure 4.1). Five historic properties are located
in the vicinity of the APE (see Figure 4.1). The closest of these are the Tammany Fish House Site,
situated 200 feet west of the APE (SGL Surrounding Property) and the Camden and Amboy
Railroad Line, located immediately west and outside of the APE (SGL Surrounding Property). The
Tammany Fish House Site represents the remains of structures associated with the Tammany Pea
Shore Fishing Company, an entertainment and sporting club founded in 1803. The Tammany Hall
Fish House was established by politicians associated with the Tammany Society of the Columbia
Order in Philadelphia. The site served as a getaway for Democratic or Jeffersonian Republican
politicians, where debates about Philadelphia’s political issues were informally discussed. By the
mid-nineteenth-century, the property was opened to the public. As stated above, this resource was
determined eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A and D
(SHPO Opinion 10/11/2000). The Camden and Amboy Railroad (C&ARR) Mainline Historic
District (SHPO Opinion: 7/12/1991), eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places,
bounds the western portion of the SGL Surrounding Property section of the APE (Zerbe 1991).
The Griffith Morgan House is located 4,200 feet northwest of the APE. This house, constructed in
1693, is prominently sited on the bank of the Pennsauken Creek near its confluence with the
Delaware River. It is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places (NR: 1/25/1973,
SR: 5/12/1972) under Criterion C as a surviving example of late-seventeenth-century domestic
architecture. The Universal-Rundle Manufacturing Plant, located 3,200 southwest of the APE, is
eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A and C as an excellent
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