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Author | : Henry Charlton Beck |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813510163 |
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 | : Henry Charlton Beck |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813510194 |
Long regarded as folklife classics, Henry Charlton Beck's books are vivid recreations of the back roads, small towns, and legends that give New Jersey its special character. Rutgers University Press is pleased to make these important books available again in newly designed editions.
Author | : Henry Charlton Beck |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813504322 |
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 | : Barbara Solem-Stull |
Publisher | : Plexus Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Automobile travel |
ISBN | : 9780937548608 |
Author | : William J. Lewis |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467147877 |
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 | : Gordon Bond |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 162584087X |
South Jersey is perhaps best known for its beachside boardwalks, glitzy Atlantic City hotels and blueberry farms, but behind these iconic symbols are the overlooked tales that are unique to New Jersey. While much of Harriet Tubman's life is well known, her time in Cape May is usually overlooked by biographers. Few know that the classic American drive-in movie theaters were born in South Jersey. Even the famous Wildwood, with its distinctive Doo-Wop architecture, hides forgotten stories: at the height of its popularity, this shore town was hosting some of the country's first rock-and-roll acts. Often overshadowed by its more urban northern counterpart, South Jersey nonetheless has a hidden past. In this collection, author Gordon Bond uncovers the most intriguing of these tales.
Author | : Joseph G. Burcher |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2010-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614232148 |
Few would imagine that the land currently occupied by the Nature Conservancy's Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge, or "the Meadows, "? was once the picturesque Jersey Shore town of South Cape May. By the early twentieth century, a striking hotel and homes designed by renowned Victorian-era architects dotted the landscape. Residents and visitors alike spotted rumrunners racing across the beachfront during Prohibition and endured World War II with German submarines lurking just offshore. But by 1954, barely a trace of the town remained except for about twenty of the original houses, which were moved a mile away. Join one of the town's last residents, Joseph Burcher, as he chronicles life in South Cape May before the angry Atlantic swallowed this serene town.
Author | : Karen F. Riley |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738573502 |
Presents a pictorial history of New Jersey's Pine Barrens, and the people who lived there during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Mark Moran |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781402766855 |
Explores haunted places, local legends, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in New Jersey.
Author | : Wendel A. White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : |
This project became available online in 1995 as "The Cemetery." The site was an attempt to provide access to my earliest artworks that addressed history, memory, and memorial within the African American community. In the late 1990's the web project evolved to include a wider range of works and the project title became "Small Towns, Black Lives." To coincide with a large survey exhibition and the publication of the book version of the project, I created the final version of the web project in 2002.