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2006 Henry Phillips Barn Restoration, Phase One
With funds raised through the annual corn maze, the Freinds completed the first of a 3-phase project to restore this classic English barn, listed on the National Register.
2005 BarnPegs Project
A grant awareded to the Friends by The History Channel enabled 100 local school children to make pegs for and help raise the Charles Fish Barn at the Visitor Center built by the Park Commission.
2004 Collections Project
Federal and state grants helped the Friends complete a 2-year project to catalogue by computer the 1,500+ period tools, machinery, household furnishings and other materials that form the farm's collections.
1999 Chicken House Reconstruction
With funding from the New Jersey State Poultry Association, volunteers constructed a chicken house representative of the farm's time period.
1995 Collection Survey
  Through a federal preservation grant, the farm's collections of tools, machinery, household artifacts and structures were surveyed and evaluated.
1991 Ice House Restoration
  Funded solely by the Friends, volunteers reconstructed the farm's ice house, after restoring the original foundation.
1985 Orchard
  Reestablished in its original location, the orchard features 30 apple, peach and plum trees donated in memory of William Mount.


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