New Jersey Ghost Towns

Author : Barbara Solem-Stull
Publisher : Plexus Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780937548608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Towns and Other Quirky Places in the New Jersey Pine Barrens written by Barbara Solem-Stull and published by Plexus Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Charlton Beck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813510163
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey written by Henry Charlton Beck and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed, for the most part, from sketches that were published in the Courier-Post newspapers of Camden, New Jersey, Beck provides us with a series of stories of towns too tiny or uncertain for today's maps. Together, these sketches help to create a more complete picture of the history of New Jersey. A connecting skein of untold or little known wartime history--the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the conflict of North against South--runs through most of the sketches. Many of the sketches concern the pine towns and their people, "the pineys" who lived in the Jersey pine barrens.

Author : Patricia A. Martinelli
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811745783
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Jersey Ghost Towns written by Patricia A. Martinelli and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores settlements and towns that have been deserted, transformed into tourist attractions, or have less than 200 residents and are mere shadows of their former selves.

Author : Henry Charlton Beck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813504322
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey written by Henry Charlton Beck and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Colonial days to the early 1900s, iron forges, glass plants, lumber and paper mills flourished in the New Jersey of the Pine Barrens, in old Burlington, Gloucester and Salem Counties. Around the inlets of the Atlantic shore and on Delaware Bay, whaling and shipbuilding were important industries. Times have changed. Many of the old towns have fallen into ruin or disappeared, swallowed up in the abandoned lands of South Jersey or swept away by the unrelenting tides of the Jersey coast. Henry Charlton Black, raised in Haddonfield for years, shared his endless delight in the land and the lore of South Jersey. He, like a few other devoted Jerseyans, began to hunt out in the 1930s the old sites and to record the stories handed down from generation to generation, clear back to early settlers. In this sequel to Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, his visits to the state's early heritage - churches, villages, and roads - are continued. He explores the routes of old railroads and the tangled wilderness of the Forked River Mountains, and he tells the lost stories of forgotten glass and iron and shipbuilding villages.

Author : James F. McCloy
Publisher : B B& A Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780912608112
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jersey Devil written by James F. McCloy and published by B B& A Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of its extraordinary history, the Jersey Devil has been exorcised, shot, electrocuted, declared officially dead, and scoffed as foolishness--none of which has had any effect on it or the people who persist in seeing it!This mysterious creature is said to prowl the lonely sand trails and mist-shrouded marshes of the Pine Barrens, and emerge perioducally to rampage through the towns and cities of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, leaving many communities in near-hysteria.The authors show that while a few appearances have been out-right fraud and others have likely been the result of mass hysteria, this creature has been seen by enough sane, sober, and responsible citizens to keep the possiblity of its existence alive and tantalizing.Over 50,000 in print

Author : William J. Lewis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467147877
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Jersey’s Lost Piney Culture written by William J. Lewis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep within the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Piney people have built a vibrant culture and industry from working the natural landscape around them. Foraging skills learned from the local Lenapes were passed down through generations of Piney families who gathered many of the same wild floral products that became staples of the Philadelphia and New York dried flower markets. Important figures such as John Richardson have sought to lift the Pineys from rural poverty by recording and marketing their craftsmanship. As the state government sought to preserve the Pine Barrens and develop the region, Piney culture was frequently threatened and stigmatized. Author and advocate William J. Lewis charts the history of the Pineys, what being a Piney means today and their legacy among the beauty of the Pine Barrens.

Author : Arthur Dudley Pierce
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813505145
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron in the Pines written by Arthur Dudley Pierce and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of southern New Jersey lies an area of some 96,000 acres of sprawling wilderness. It is the famous Wharton Tract which the state of New Jersey purchased in 1954 for a watershed, game preserve, and park. Many people know and love these wooded acres. Each year, people by the thousands visit Batsto Village, once the center of the iron industry that thrived on the tract more than a century ago. With warmth and accuracy, Arthur D. Pierce tells the story of the years when iron was king, and around it rose a rustic feudal economy. There were glass factories, paper mills, cotton mills, and brickmaking establishments. Here, too, were men who made those years exciting: Benedict Arnold and his first step toward treason; Charles Read, who dreamed of an empire and died in exile; Revolutionary heroes and heroines, privateers, and rogues. The author's vivid pictures of day-to-day life in the old iron communities are based upon careful research. This book proves that the human drama of documented history belies any notion that fiction is stranger than truth.

Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493027980
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spooky New Jersey written by S. E. Schlosser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past. Set deep in the Pinelands and Ramapo Mountains, along the Atlantic coast, and in historic towns like Burlington and Springfield, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. New Jersey folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations. You'll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.

Author : Mark Moran
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402766855
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weird N. J. written by Mark Moran and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores haunted places, local legends, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in New Jersey.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708673
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pine Barrens written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the "Pineys," are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people—and their distinctive folklore—who call it home.