Now that the vast Wharton estate, tri-county treasure trove of many of these stories, is back in the news, I feel impelled to refresh your memory concerning it. I do that knowing that there will ...
https://www.njpinebarrens.com/famed-south-jersey-estate-is-a-romantic-area/
This is the final article in a three part series looking at the history of the ghost town of Atsion. You can find part one of the series at this link, and part two at this link. In 1862, the futu...
https://www.njpinebarrens.com/atsion-part-3-to-the-modern-day/
This is part two of a three part series looking at the history of the ghost town of Atsion. You can find part one at this link. Samuel Richards, good-looking and enormously successful, was the on...
https://www.njpinebarrens.com/atsion-part-2-prosperity-and-decline/
Henry Drinker, a wealthy Quaker merchant in Philadelphia, wrote: “I expect it will be nothing new to hear that we Iron Masters are in general a sett of Hungry, needy beings, frequently bare of ...
https://www.njpinebarrens.com/atsion-part-1-the-charles-read-era/
It all started with a road map of New Jersey. A little north of the Red Lion Circle, in the heart of the Burlington County Pine Barrens, the map depicted a tiny hamlet marked with the unusual nam...
https://www.njpinebarrens.com/a-hat-a-hut-or-a-tavern-the-tale-of-ongs-hat/
Hidden back in the woods near Buckingham, the deserted station stop of the Pennsylvania Railroad that brought visitors from Philadelphia to Long Branch in the late 19th century, a scattering of c...
I set off on todays adventure, as I have so many in the past, following the path of the late historian Henry Charlton Beck. Beck explored many of the “forgotten towns” of Southern New Jersey ...
The name Red Oak Grove, for many, may be unheard of, but for Pine Barrens enthusiasts, it is an enigma bound within Pandora’s Box. Its only evidence is the remains of several foundation pits,...
About a week or so ago I posted a thread on the NJPineBarrens.com forums asking for people’s opinions on what they believed to be the most remote place in the Pine Barrens. When I had first tho...
https://www.njpinebarrens.com/exploring-the-lost-lake-at-colliers-mills/
Clay was king at Pasadena. Nestled back in the woods near Woodmansie, down the tracks from Whiting and even farther from Chatsworth, an empire of clay was borne and then quickly died. Wheatlands ...
https://www.njpinebarrens.com/on-the-trail-to-union-clay-works/