Milk glass chalice (fragment)
Item
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Title
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Milk glass chalice (fragment)
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Description
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Milk glass chalice (and other archaeological fragments such as nails and bricks), 20th century. Related to the original construction and use of Mt. Zion AME Church
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This porcelain object, among others, was discovered during a scheduled excavation at the Mt. Zion AME church property on December 12, 2020. It was later classified as milk glass which was commonly used for decorative objects, household items, and even commercial packaging, such as cold cream jars in the 19th and 20th century in the US and Europe. The glass gets its characteristic milky appearance from the addition of minerals such as tin oxide, bone ash, or feldspar during production. The excavation was actually an investigation of the soil conditions in an area immediately adjacent to the church building. The purpose was to secure the ground for construction expansion to house new HVAC facilities and the installation of an accessible access. Mt Zion AME Church was established in around 1850 at another location close by. It later burned down around 1890 and was rebuilt at its existing location in 1899 and subsequently earned a federal designation on The National Register of Historic Places (“OUR SITES | SSAAM,” n.d.).
Both churches played an important role in the local African-American Community in the 19th and 20th centuries (Buck, Elaine, and Beverly Mills, 2018). The building is now the headquarters of the Stoutsburg-Sourland African-American Museum, established in 2014 (Burrow, Ian. 2021). The property known as Reasoner/True House includes a five-acre farm adjacent to Mt. Zion AME Church and an early owner of the Reasoner/True House and its land was a local Black Union Army veteran and his wife, William and Corinda Reasoner. The farm is also owned by the Stoutsburg-Sourland African-American Museum in connection with the Sourland Conservancy (Wikipedia contributors, 2023).
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Contributor
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Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum
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Date Created
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(c. 1930 - 1960)
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Creator
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Mt. Zion AME Church
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Rights
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This work is not in copyright, but commercial uses of this digital representation are limited. For more information, contact info@ssaamuseum.org and see http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/
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Identifier
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2023.2.3.4
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Format
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Physical Object
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Extent
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1 item
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Spatial Coverage
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Hillsborough Twp. NJ
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Publisher
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SSAAM
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Is Part Of
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2023.2.3.1 and 3
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Subject
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Chalices
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Archaeology
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Milk glass--Collectors and collecting
