Forgotten Towns of Southern New JerseyComposed, 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. |
Contents
Hanover Furnace | 16 |
Ongs | 19 |
Batsto | 25 |
The Doctor of the Pines | 35 |
Speedwell | 49 |
Prospertown Archers Corner Colliers Mill | 53 |
Loveladies and Peahala | 59 |
New Egypt | 65 |
Hocka | 87 |
Rattlesnake Aces Town | 89 |
President and Princess | 95 |
Pasadena Not California | 101 |
Cranberry Hall XVIII Sweetwater XIX Old Half Way XX Port Elizabeth A Womans Town XXI Forgotten Little Pine Mill | 105 |
The Man They Hanged | 167 |
Harrisia or Harrisville | 175 |
Upper Mill | 183 |
The Tuckerton Road | 69 |
The Hermit of LaHaWay | 77 |
Calico | 85 |
Fairton New England Crossroads XXVI The Murder at Bamber XXVII Gloucester Furnace XXVIII Catawba and Etna | 191 |
Hogless Hog Wallow | 193 |
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