Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

Henry Charlton Beck

Rutgers University Press, 1936 - History - 288 pages

"Villages have disappeared even from the maps, the vestiges described by Beck having been obliterated by the bulldozer or the attrition of time. Only this book remains, a labor of love, to tell their stories." --Chicago Tribune Long regarded as folklife classics, Henry Charlton Beck's books are vivid re-creations 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.

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User Review  - Brian Binkley - Goodreads

Great history, well written. I travel through much of the areas listed and was happy to read of towns and people long gone. Well worth my time!

Contents

• PACE: 16
• Ongs Hat: 19
• Batsto: 25
• Batstos hotel and company store: 33
• The Doctor of the Pines: 35
• Speedwell: 49
• Prospertown: 52
• Prospertown Archers Corner Colliers Mill: 53
• Loveladies and Peahala: 59
• Leeds Point: 64
• New Egypt: 65
• The Tuckerton Road: 69
• Pine Grove Union Church: 75
• The Hermit of LaHaWay: 77
• Ruins of the Ellis Adams farmhouse at Calico: 84
• Calico: 85
• Rattlesnake Aces Town: 89
• Home of Rattlesnake Ace: 93
• President and Princess: 95
• Oven of the Pasadena Terra Cotta Company: 100
• Pasadena Not California: 101
• SmithvilleHighBicycle Town: 105
• Hezekiah B Smith and his bicycle railroad bet non: 113
• Waretown and the Quaker Baptists: 115
• The Methodist meetinghouse at Port Elizabeth: 119
• Brindle Town: 121
• The mill and hotel at Brindle Town: 125
• Cranberry Hall: 127
• Sweetwater: 133
• Pleasant Mills of Sweetwater: 144
• Old Half Way: 145
• A Womans Town: 149
• Forgotten Little Pine Mill: 161
• The Man They Hanged: 167
• Harrisia or Harrisville: 175
• Upper Mill: 183
• Fairton New England Crossroads: 191
• The Murder at Bamber: 203
• Gloucester Furnace: 213
• Catawba and Etna: 217
• Slabtown and Copany: 221
• Forsaken Mount Misery: 233
• Indians and the Wizard: 239
• Hanover Furnace: 247
• Red Lion: 251
• Hocka mick: 255
• Hogless Hog Wallow: 259
• Double Trouble and Dover: 265
• Atsayunk of the Atsiyonks: 269
• A Note on the Author: 279

About the author

Beck was a concert violinist, an author, an Episcopal priest.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
• Author: Henry Charlton Beck
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1936
• ISBN: 0813510163, 9780813510163
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)