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- The Pine Barrens, a protected ecosystem in New Jersey, has long been thought of as a mysterious area full of paranormal activity and infamous Jersey Devil encounters. The woods here are full of ghost towns, including the remains of an industrial town called Harrisville.
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There are dozens of ghost towns and ruins scattered across the region. They are the remains of a series of industries – principally bog iron, forestry, charcoal, paper and glass – that arose with the coming of European colonists and faded as richer sources were found to the west.
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Oct 31, 2019 · Many think of the American West when they hear of outlaws and ghost towns, but the Pine Barrens were just as wild. Take the story of John Bacon, for example: a Loyalist guerrilla who massacred...
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Weymouth – Weymouth Furnace County Park Weymouth Road near the intersection with the Black Horse Pike Hamilton Township, NJ Weymouth is the site of an old iron works. A furnace and a forge were both in operation here by 1802, and were taken over by Samuel Richards (remember that name, it’ll be back a lot this post) early in the 19th century. After ...
Belcoville – Estell Manor County Park Route 50 Estell Manor, NJ Sure, there are eighteen miles of hiking trails here, but forget looking for nature and start looking for a munitions factory. That’s right, this whole park was part of a massive ammunition factory complex during The Great War (aka World War I). You can’t wander more than a hundred fee...
Atsion – Wharton State Forest Route 206 and Quaker Bridge Road Shamong, NJ Another old furnace town, this one was started by Charles Read before the War for Independence. Like most iron towns in the pines, it was later acquired by the Richards family. The centerpiece of the village is the 1824 Richards mansion, which has an imposing location on the...
Smithville – Historic Smithville Park 801 Smithville Rd Mt Holly, NJ Q: What does a bicycle factory, a moose-drawn carriage, and a bicycle railroad have in common? A: Hezekiah Smith and his model village in Burlington County. Before Mr. Smith, there were mills here and well as a cotton cloth manufacturing center named Shrevesville. But it was when ...
Whitesbog Village – Brendan Bryne State Forest 120 W Whites Bogs Rd #34 Browns Mills, NJ This was the site of one the earliest cranberry operations in the area, going back to almost the Civil War. However, it’s true claim to fame came when Elizabeth White developed the commercially viable blueberry here. Now part of Brendan Bryne State Forest and r...
Batsto Village – Wharton State Forest 31 Batsto Road Washington Township, NJ As author Barbara Solem states right in the title of her book on Batsto, this is the “Jewel of the Pines”. A New Jersey Colonial Williamsburg, this old iron/glassmaking town goes back to the pre-Revolutionary War days. It made canonballs for George Washington’s army during...
Aug 4, 2022 · The town was eventually sold to Joseph Wharton in 1896. By this time, Harrisville was merely a ghost town. A forest fire swept through the Pine Barrens in 1914; it destroyed most of the paper mill. As it sat abandoned after the fire, vandals started to pick it apart.
Sep 30, 2017 · Some of the Pine Barrens' lost towns are evidence of an area that once thrived -- but others never even had the chance to get off the ground.
Oct 31, 2019 · The most famous story is that of the Jersey Devil, a mythical beast born to a woman living in the Pine Barrens, which has reportedly haunted the region for hundreds of years.
Over time, however, the forest reclaimed almost all traces of the Pine Barrens' industrial past. Ghost towns —remnants of villages built around these former industries—can still be found at various locations. Batsto Village has been restored to its mid-19th century state as a state historic site.
